11-letter words containing b, e, l, t
- letter bomb — an envelope containing an explosive device designed to detonate when the envelope is opened by the recipient.
- letterboxed — Simple past tense and past participle of letterbox.
- letterboxes — Plural form of letterbox.
- liabilities — liabilities. moneys owed; debts or pecuniary obligations (opposed to assets). Accounting. liabilities as detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to assets and capital.
- liberalists — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- libertarian — a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.
- liberticide — destruction of liberty.
- libertinage — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
- libertinism — libertine practices or habits of life; disregard of authority or convention in sexual or religious matters.
- liberty cap — a soft, conical cap given to a freed slave in ancient Rome at manumission of his servitude, used as a symbol of liberty, especially since the 18th century.
- librettists — Plural form of librettist.
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
- light bread — white bread.
- light table — a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- likeability — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
- little bear — the constellation Ursa Minor.
- little belt — a strait in Denmark, between Jutland and Funen Island, linking the Kattegat with the Baltic. Length: about 48 km (30 miles). Width: up to 29 km (18 miles)
- little bird — If you say that a little bird told you about something, you mean that someone has told you about it, but you do not want to say who it was.
- liveability — Alternative spelling of livability.
- lobectomies — Plural form of lobectomy.
- lobotomised — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobotomized — Surgery. having undergone a lobotomy.
- lobster net — a net used for catching lobsters
- lobster pot — a trap for catching lobsters, typically a box made of wooden slats with a funnellike entrance to the bait.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
- locust bean — carob.
- loose bytes — Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.
- lost tribes — the members of the ten tribes of ancient Israel who were taken into captivity in 722 b.c. by Sargon II of Assyria and are believed never to have returned to Palestine. II Kings 17:1–23.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- lutine bell — the salvaged bell from the wrecked British warship Lutine, hung in the insurance office of Lloyd's of London and traditionally rung before announcements of ships overdue or lost at sea.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- mantelboard — mantel.
- marine belt — territorial waters.
- megaloblast — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- melanoblast — an undifferentiated cell that develops into a melanophore or melanocyte.
- melba toast — narrow slices of thin, crisp toast.
- meltability — The state or quality of being meltable.
- mentionable — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- metabolised — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolise.
- metabolises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metabolise.
- metabolisms — Plural form of metabolism.
- metabolites — Plural form of metabolite.