12-letter words containing le
- bicycle path — a path designed for bicyclists
- bicycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- bicycle race — cycling (def 2).
- bicycle rack — a metal frame for securing bicycles when they are not in use
- bicycle shed — a shed for bicycle storage
- bicycle shop — a shop that sells and usually repairs bicycles and bicycle parts
- bidialectism — proficient in or using two dialects of the same language.
- bill of sale — a deed transferring personal property, either outright or as security for a loan or debt
- bimillennial — relating to a bimillennium
- bimillennium — a period of two thousand years
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- bingo caller — the person who shouts out the numbers to bingo players
- bioavailable — the extent to which a nutrient or medication can be used by the body.
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- biotelemetry — the monitoring of biological functions in humans or animals by means of a miniature transmitter that sends data to a distant point to be read by electronic instruments
- bitter apple — colocynth
- bitter lemon — a non-alcoholic, fizzy drink with a lemon flavour
- black beetle — another name for the oriental cockroach
- black letter — a kind of heavy-faced, ornamental printing type
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- blamableness — the state of being blamable
- bleed sb dry — If someone is being bled dry or is being bled white, all of their money or other resources are gradually being taken away from them.
- bleeder tile — a terra-cotta pipe for conveying water from a drainage tile to a sewer or drain.
- blennorrhoea — an excessive discharge of watery mucus, esp from the urethra or the vagina
- bletheration — nonsense!
- bletherskate — a blatherer
- blind roller — a long ocean swell that rises almost to breaking as it passes over shoals.
- block letter — a plain capital letter
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- 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.
- bloomingdale — a town in NE Illinois.
- blue thistle — blueweed (def 1).
- blue-singlet — working-class
- blue-thistle — Also called blue thistle. a bristly weed, Echium vulgare, of the borage family, having showy blue flowers, a native of Europe naturalized in the U.S.
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- boiled shirt — a dress shirt with a stiff front
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- boiler house — a building housing a boiler
- boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
- boletic acid — fumaric acid.
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- bootlessness — the quality of being useless or ineffective
- bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
- bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
- bottle green — a deep green.
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- bottle-green — Something that is bottle-green is dark green in colour.