12-letter words containing b, u, r, l
- jubilee year — jubilee (def 5a).
- julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- landlubberly — Like a landlubber.
- lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
- latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.
- 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.
- lillibullero — a part of the refrain to a song deriding the Irish Roman Catholics, popular in England during and after the revolution of 1688.
- liquidambars — Plural form of liquidambar.
- lobular pump — a blower or pump displacing air or liquid by means of rotors having meshing lobes that act as a seal at their place of mesh.
- loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- lubberliness — Quality of being lubberly.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- 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.
- lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
- 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.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- mount elbert — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch range. Height: 4399 m (14 431 ft)
- multilobular — having several or many lobules.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- multitubular — Having many tubes.
- murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle