11-letter words containing a, b, u, t, l
- perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- quotability — The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
- racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
- rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- relubricate — to lubricate again or with new lubricant
- retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
- reusability — reuse
- ritual bath — a mikvah.
- rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
- round table — conference, meeting
- round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
- rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
- rumbustical — rumbustious
- runnability — to move with haste; act quickly: Run upstairs and get the iodine.
- stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
- statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
- sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- sublethally — in a sublethal manner
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- subliterary — not intended as literature
- subliterate — less than fully literate.
- sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
- subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
- submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
- submittable — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- substantial — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders