11-letter words containing b, o, l, e
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
- like a bomb — with great speed or success; very well (esp in the phrase go like a bomb)
- like billyo — (intensifier)
- limber hole — any of a series of holes pierced through a frame or floor to allow the passage of accumulated moisture.
- lingonberry — mountain cranberry.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- 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.
- local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
- localizable — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
- lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
- locust bean — carob.
- long-limbed — having long limbs
- 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.
- lovableness — The property that makes someone or something lovable.
- 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.
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lumber room — a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.
- malebo pool — a lakelike body of water on the boundary between the W Democratic Republic of the Congo and the SE People's Republic of the Congo, formed by the widening of the Congo (Zaire) River about 330 miles (530 km) from its mouth. About 20 miles (32 km) long; about 15 miles (24 km) wide.
- mantelboard — mantel.
- mebendazole — an anthelmintic substance, C 1 6 H 1 3 N 3 O 3 , used for treating parasitic worm infestations.
- 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.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- memorabilia — Objects kept or collected because of their historical interest, especially those associated with memorable people or events.
- memorizable — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- 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.
- metabolized — Simple past tense and past participle of metabolize.
- metabolizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metabolize.
- metabolomes — Plural form of metabolome.
- 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.
- middle-born — neither first nor last in order of birth, especially second in a family of three children.
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.