12-letter words containing lo
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- battological — tending to repeat words unnecessarily
- be at a loss — If you say that you are at a loss, you mean that you do not know what to do in a particular situation.
- be let loose — If you say that someone has been let loose in a place or situation, you mean that they have been given complete freedom to do what they like in that place or situation, and you suggest that this may be risky.
- be no slouch — If you say that someone is no slouch at a particular activity, you mean that they are skilful at it or are willing to work hard at it.
- beauty salon — A beauty salon is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- bed-blocking — the use of hospital beds by elderly patients who cannot leave hospital because they have no place in a residential care home
- beer o’clock — the time of day when it is acceptable or customary to start drinking alcohol
- beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
- bellows fish — snipefish.
- below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- beta blocker — A beta blocker is a drug which is used to treat people who have high blood pressure or heart problems.
- beta-blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the beta receptors: used primarily to reduce the heart rate or force in the prevention, management, or treatment of angina, hypertension, or arrythmias.
- bibliologist — a student of bibliology
- billow cloud — a cloud consisting of broad, parallel bands oriented perpendicularly to the wind.
- binary color — secondary color.
- biocoenology — the branch of ecology concerned with the relationships and interactions between the members of a natural community
- biologically — pertaining to biology.
- biosociology — the study of the evolution of social forms and the development of social behavior in terms analogous to or correlated with biological studies.
- bird colonel — a full colonel in the US Army
- biting louse — any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga, such as the chicken louse: external parasites of birds and mammals with biting mouthparts
- bitter aloes — a bitter purgative drug made from the leaves of several species of aloe
- bitter melon — balsam pear.
- black locust — Also called false acacia, yellow locust. a North American tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of fragrant white flowers.
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- block heater — an electrically operated immersion heater fitted either to enter the water hose or the water jacket surrounding the cylinder block of a motor to warm the coolant in cold weather.
- block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
- block letter — a plain capital letter
- block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
- block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
- block voting — voting using block votes
- blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- blocked shoe — a dancing shoe with a stiffened toe that enables a ballet dancer to dance on the tips of the toes
- bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
- blood doping — the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood
- blood orange — a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
- blood plasma — the pale yellow fluid portion of the blood; blood from which red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- blood sister — a sister by birth
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- blood supply — the flow of blood to different parts of the body
- blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
- blood vessel — Blood vessels are the narrow tubes through which your blood flows.
- blood volume — the total quantity of blood in the body
- bloodcurdler — something causing great fright or horror: a bloodcurdler of a mystery novel.
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
- bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.