12-Letter Words Containing B

Bourgeoisie

""BOURGEOISIE The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.""

Boutonniere

Taking the offensive, and taking out the offensive

Bowdlerizer

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

Boyishness

Brachiation

""The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.""

Bradycardia

Braggadocio

Braininess

Brainstorm

Brainstorm

Nearest bar is setting problems

Problems, puzzles

Strike by those who provoke tough questions ...

BRAINWASHER brainwash

Clearing one's mind (wordplay)

Forced indoctrination

Totally indoctrinating

Branchiopod

Brassiness

Brattiness

Brawniness

Brazenness

Regions supplying much grain.

Stomachs, slangily

Breadboard

They're also first home with the bacon!

Supporters of family life waving weird banners

Clearly they succeed in earning the dough

One whose earnings are the primary source of support for one's dependents.

BREAKFASTER breakfast

Breakfast

Important development (eg in research)

Progress? Leave over!

Make a sudden advance

Breastplate

Way to cross the pool

Adam Peaty's swimming style

Natant style involving heart massage

Surprisingly, her best sally's showing lack of inspiration

Stunning, but also inspiring (wordplay)

Lack of airtime is astonishing

Inspiring? Awesome!

Brecciation

Breechblock

Breechcloth

Breechclout

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Breeziness

Bricklaying

Brightness

Brilliancy

Ill in barnet? I could set that right!

Perfumed oil for making hair glossy

One worker in East going after fish oil

Sometime foreign policy.

Living on the edge politically

Pressing of a dangerous situation to the limit

Bristletail

BROADCASTER broadcast

Transmitting radio/TV

*On the air

Wide selection of actors for radio

Brokenness

Bromegrass

Bromination

Bromouracil

Plural or third person singular

Bronchitis

Adjective (-ic)

Instrument used for examining the windpipe

BRONCHOS broncho

English word

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Prehistoric thunderer (wordplay)

Prehistoric beast (thunder lizard)

Dinosaur with a long neck and tail

Broodiness

BROOMBALLER broomball

Criminal siblings (wordplay)

Lodges open to 14 across and gangsters

Abstract noun (-ity)

Bryophyllum

Bubblehead

Buccaneer

Like a buccaneer; piratical.

English word

Buffoonery

Bullbaiting

Bulldogging

BULLFIGHTER bullfight

Papal edict against brawling fiesta in Pamplona

Bullheaded

Bullmastiff

Bullterrier

Bullwhip

Bullyrag

Bumbershoot

Bunchberry

Bunchgrass

BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

BURGLARIZE

Able to keep thieves out

Burgomaster

Bushranging

Guerillas

""Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.""

Professional with racket has something to admire

Professional

My preferred transport conveys head, being efficient

Butterfish

BUTTERFLYER butterfly

Butterfly

Sweet goat from Scotland (wordplay)

Sweet bishop, say, having whisky

Foreign flavor (wordplay)

Buttonbush

Buttonholer

Accosting and detaining (someone)

Buttonhook

Cabbageworm

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Cabinetwork

Calibration

Candelabrum

Cannabinoid

CANNIBALISE

Cannibalise

Cannibalism

CANNIBALIZE

Cannibalize

Cannonball

Talents

""Any of various enzymes, such as amylase, that catalyze the hydrolysis of a carbohydrate.""

Type of food

Botched array disrupted energy source

Component of food Deborah and Tracy munched

""Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.""

Carbonado

Carbonation

Carboxylase

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Carboxylate

Carburetion

Carburetter

Carburet

Carburettor

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

CATABOLIZE

Share in famous people's festivities

Bar elections confusing parties

Cabinet's role upsets parties

Centerboard

Cerebration

Cerebroside

Chamberlain

Violent mama's birched the servants

Cleaner male helps holding decoration for cleaners

Where members sit with girls who work in hotels (wordplay)

CHARBROILER charbroil

Charbroil

Ear-chewers

Terribly OTT breach backing male or female gossips

Motormouths

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens). Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Surface of 64 squares

Design of alternating squares

Examine hesitation for committee looking for kings in America (wordplay)

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

Chemisorb

Cherubical

Like comic Hilda's female act

Chinaberry

Chokeberry

Chrysarobin

Chrysoberyl

Chubbiness

""CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Confine within limited range

Restrict; draw round

Draw a line around

Clapboard

Capable of being classified.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Cloudberry

Clubbiness

COBBLESTONE A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; used for paving streets and for other purposes.

They may pave the way

Tough cycling surfaces

Living together

Living together in love abode I read about

Getting together before a possible match (wordplay)

Joined forces with strangely adorable clot

Collaborate

One working jointly

Fellow worker

Cream perhaps no longer in favour of Australian novelist

Collectable

Collectible

Collembolan

Adjective (-ous)

Feeling of apprehension

Bellboy with scowl suffering pain

Upset stomach

Curry is including country mixtures

Search thoroughly island lands for a number of blends

Comes around head and shoulders for one lawyer provided they burn easily

The Bonfire of the Vanities perhaps is incendiary to society

They're likely to go off on one, having a fiery disposition on bender

Catching Tommy, Eunice bounds away into lead

(Of disease) able to be passed on to others

""COMMUNICABLE Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.""

That may be compounded.

""Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.""

English word

To celebrate together.

Concubinage

Fabricated past experiences

Shoots the breeze

Chats

Conversationalist

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""

The act or process of forming into a ball.

""CONNUBIAL Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.""

The quality of being connubial; something characteristics of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.

""Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.""

Decent message about drones, I gathered

Regard as skilful and influential

Regard as skilful and substantial

Rook expertly capturing Rook on flank, remarkably

Criminal, brutal say, thrashed coppers

Bill or Nick (wordplay)

Force changing brutal con, say

Revolting beyond The Pale

Despicable company gets half-hearted bite after introducing lure

Vile

In a contemptible manner.

Contrabass

Capable of contraction.

CONTRAST to place in opposition to display differences

""CONTRIBUTE To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor. as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.""

In regret, almost buy gift

Something given towards a common purpose

Gift of half buck bestowed in sorrow

""Contributing, or tending to contribute.""

Contributor

""Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.""

Able to be managed

Conurbation

Stock cars (wordplay)

Cars for the sun belt (pl.)

Stock cars?

PUBLISHERS publisher

Copublish

Coralberry

""Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena. as, correlatable phenomena.""

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