11-letter words containing b, e, u
- lenard tube — an early cathode-ray tube having at the end opposite the cathode a window of thin glass or metal allowing cathode rays (Lenard rays) to pass out into the atmosphere.
- libellously — in a libellous manner
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- liquefiable — Able to be liquefied.
- locust bean — carob.
- lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lubber line — a vertical line on the forward inner side of the bowl of a fixed compass, used as a reference mark indicating the heading of a vessel.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lumber mill — factory where timber is processed
- lumber room — a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.
- 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.
- lumberingly — With heavy, clumsy movements.
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lumberyards — Plural form of lumberyard.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- 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.
- 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.
- make a buck — If you are trying to make a buck, you are trying to earn some money.
- make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- mare boreum — (Northern Sea) an area near the north pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- mare nubium — (Sea of Clouds) a dark plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 95,000 sq. mi. (245,000 sq. km).
- marker buoy — a buoy used to distinguish or mark something
- mass number — the integer nearest in value to the atomic weight of an atom and equal to the number of nucleons in the nucleus of the atom. Symbol: A.
- masturbated — Simple past tense and past participle of masturbate.
- masturbates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of masturbate.
- measureable — Misspelling of measurable.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- melba sauce — a clear raspberry sauce, used especially as a dessert topping.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- misnumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- mouse elbow — (jargon, medical) A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.