12-letter words containing b, u, m, l, e
- gubernaculum — a part or organ that directs the movement or course of another part.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- immeasurable — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immeasurably — incapable of being measured; limitless: the immeasurable vastness of the universe.
- immensurable — immeasurable.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- lumber river — a river in S central North Carolina and NE South Carolina, flowing SE and S to the Little Pee Dee River. 125 miles (201 km) long.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumbersexual — a man whose style of dress and appearance is reminiscent of the ruggedly masculine stereotype of the lumberjack, as in wearing plaid shirts and having a beard.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- maneuverable — capable of being steered or directed; easy to maneuver: The polyethylene craft remains as durable and maneuverable as any conventional high-performance kayak.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- maple butter — thickened maple syrup
- mare liberum — a body of navigable water to which all nations have unrestricted access.
- metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
- muscle beach — a beach where young men display their muscles, engage in calisthenics, etc.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- perambulator — baby carriage.