12-letter words containing bla
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- black-coated — (esp formerly) (of a worker) clerical or professional, as distinguished from commercial or industrial
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- black-market — to black-marketeer.
- blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
- blackcurrant — In Europe, blackcurrants are a type of very small, dark purple fruits that grow in bunches on bushes.
- blackhearted — wicked; evil
- bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
- bladder kelp — any of various giant brown algae with air bladders that buoy up the leafy portions
- bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blamableness — the state of being blamable
- blandishment — the act of blandishing; cajolery
- blank cheque — If someone is given a blank cheque, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- blanket bath — an all-over wash given to a person confined to bed
- blanket roll — a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
- blanket toss — a game in which a person is repeatedly tossed into the air and caught on an open blanket by a group of people who hold the blanket at its edges and stretch and relax it for each toss and catch.
- blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
- blastocoelic — of or relating to the blastocoel
- blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
- blastosphere — blastula
- blastulation — the process of blastula formation
- blatherskite — a talkative silly person
- blaue reiter — der Blaue Reiter. a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism
- blaze orange — a very bright orange, as on a traffic cone.
- blazing star — a North American liliaceous plant, Chamaelirium luteum, with a long spike of small white flowers
- boudin blanc — a boiled sausage made with light-colored meat, as veal or chicken, and without blood
- cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
- carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
- chenin blanc — a white grape grown in the Loire region of France and in South Africa, California, New Zealand, and elsewhere, used for making wine
- chondroblast — a type of cell that develops into a chondrocyte or cartilage cell
- counterblast — A counterblast is a strong angry reply to something that has been said, written, or done.
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- emblazonment — The act of emblazoning.
- emblazonries — Plural form of emblazonry.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- gall bladder — a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.