11-letter words containing b, c, e
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- macebearers — Plural form of macebearer.
- maceranduba — the milk tree, native to Brazil
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- marble cake — a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- march break — a school holiday, usually for a week, during March
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- medicinable — medicinal.
- melba sauce — a clear raspberry sauce, used especially as a dessert topping.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mescal bean — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Sophora secundiflora, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having clusters of fragrant, violet-blue flowers and pods containing highly poisonous, bright red seeds.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- miami beach — a city in SE Florida on an island 2½ miles (4 km) across Biscayne Bay from Miami: seaside resort.
- microbicide — a substance or preparation for killing microbes.
- microbrewed — Produced by microbrewing.
- microbrewer — The person or company that operates a microbrewery.
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microfibers — Plural form of microfiber.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- misbalanced — badly balanced
- misbecoming — Present participle of misbecome.
- misdescribe — Describe inaccurately or misleadingly.
- mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
- mobocracies — Plural form of mobocracy.
- moclobemide — A drug used to treat depression and social anxiety.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- necker cube — a line drawing showing the 12 edges of a transparent cube, so that it can be seen alternately facing in two different directions: an example of an ambiguous figure
- necrobiosis — the death of cells or tissue caused by aging or disease.
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- neglectable — Small enough, or unimportant enough to be neglected; negligible.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- nerve block — an arrest of the passage of impulses through a nerve by means of pressure on the nerve or by injection of an anesthetic into or around the nerve.
- nickel belt — the area around Sudbury in Northern Ontario, rich in nickel ore
- non-aerobic — (of an organism or tissue) requiring the presence of air or free oxygen for life.
- non-citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- noncallable — not capable of being called.
- noncredible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- nondiabetic — (medicine) Not suffering from diabetes.
- nonmiscible — not capable of being mixed.
- noticeboard — Alternative spelling of notice board.
- nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.