11-letter words containing b, u, r, l
- lambrequins — Plural form of lambrequin.
- landlubbers — Plural form of landlubber.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- 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.
- liquidambar — any tree of the genus Liquidambar, including the sweet gum.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- 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.
- 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).
- lubritorium — a place, as in a service station, for the lubrication of motor vehicles
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- 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.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- lumbricalis — lumbrical.
- lump labour — work done by self-employed workers in the building trade
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- measureable — Misspelling of measurable.
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- 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.
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- multibarrel — a gun having more than one barrel
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- multimember — (in a system of proportional representation) indicating or relating to a constituency which returns more than one member in an election
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- 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.
- neurofibril — a fibril of a nerve cell.
- neuroglobin — (protein) Any of a class of vertebrate globins involved in cellular oxygen homeostasis.