11-letter words containing a, b, u, t, l
- bursiculate — resembling a pouch
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
- cat burglar — A cat burglar is a thief who steals from houses or other buildings by climbing up walls and entering through windows or through the roof.
- cattle grub — the larva or adult of a warble fly, especially Hypoderma lineatum, a common pest of cattle in North America.
- causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
- coach-built — (of a vehicle) having specially built bodywork
- cobalt blue — any greenish-blue pigment containing cobalt aluminate, usually made by heating cobaltous sulphate, aluminium oxide, and phosphoric acid together
- confabulate — to talk together; converse; chat
- construable — that can be construed
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- corbiculate — having corbiculae or pollen baskets
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- culebra cut — former name of Gaillard Cut.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- debut album — the first album produced by a particular singer or band
- delta blues — a style of blues originating in the Mississippi Delta, typically featuring slide guitar and harmonica
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- desublimate — Psychology. to divert 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.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- double coat — an outer coat of hair on a dog serving as protection against underbrush and resistant to weather, combined with an undercoat of softer hair for warmth and waterproofing.
- double date — two couples meeting socially
- double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
- double ikat — a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat) the weft yarns (weft ikat) or both (double ikat) before weaving.
- double salt — a salt that crystallizes as a single substance but ionizes as two distinct salts when dissolved, as carnallite, KMgCl 3 ⋅6H 2 O.
- double star — two stars that appear as one if not viewed through a telescope with adequate magnification, such as two stars that are separated by a great distance but are nearly in line with each other and an observer (optical double star) or those that are relatively close together and comprise a single physical system (physical double star)
- double take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- double-date — to take part in a double date.
- double-take — a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.
- double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
- double-team — to defend against or block (an opposing player) by using two players, as in football or basketball: By double-teaming the end the safety men left the other receiver in the open.
- educability — capable of being educated.
- entablature — A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
- equilibrant — a force capable of balancing another force and producing equilibrium
- equilibrate — Bring into or keep in equilibrium.
- eubacterial — (biology) Of or pertaining to the Eubacteria.
- exhaustible — Capable of being exhausted.
- exuberantly — In an exuberant manner.
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.