11-letter words containing b, l, u, n
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insuperable — incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted: an insuperable barrier.
- insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
- inutterable — unutterable.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- kennel club — an association of dog breeders, usually concerned only with certain breeds of dogs.
- king's blue — cobalt blue.
- klausenburg — German name of Cluj-Napoca.
- knuckleball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- kublai khan — 1216–94, khan c1260–94: founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- labor union — an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.
- lactalbumin — the simple protein of milk, obtained from whey, used in the preparation of certain foods and in adhesives and varnishes.
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- landlubbing — an unseasoned sailor or someone unfamiliar with the sea.
- launderable — to wash (clothes, linens, etc.).
- laundry bag — A laundry bag is a bag for clothes that that are about to be washed.
- 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.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- lime burner — a person who makes lime by burning or calcining limestone, shells, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
- lumberingly — With heavy, clumsy movements.
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- 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.
- mandibulate — having mandibles.
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
- manipulably — In a manipulable way.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- 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.
- molybdenous — containing bivalent molybdenum.
- monday club — (in Britain) a club made up of right-wing Conservatives who originally met together for lunch on Monday: founded in 1961
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mutableness — The quality of being mutable.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- neural tube — a tube formed by the closure of ectodermal tissue in the early vertebrate embryo that later develops into the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.
- neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.