11-letter words containing b, u, t, l
- ineluctably — incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny. Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable. Antonyms: certain, sure, fated.
- inequitable — not equitable; unjust or unfair: an inequitable decision.
- inequitably — not equitable; unjust or unfair: an inequitable decision.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- insalubrity — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inutterable — unutterable.
- irrefutable — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irreputable — (obsolete) disreputable.
- isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
- jerry-built — built cheaply and flimsily.
- justiceable — Liable to trial in a court of justice.
- justiciable — capable of being settled by law or by the action of a court: a justiciable dispute.
- justifiable — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- justifiably — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
- lactalbumin — the simple protein of milk, obtained from whey, used in the preparation of certain foods and in adhesives and varnishes.
- lateral bud — axillary bud.
- laudability — Laudableness.
- 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.
- lockout box — Television. lockbox (def 3).
- locust bean — carob.
- locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- 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
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- 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.
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- 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.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- misdoubtful — doubting; distrustful
- 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.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- multibarrel — a gun having more than one barrel
- multibladed — having multiple blades
- multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
- multilobate — having or comprised of several lobes
- multimember — (in a system of proportional representation) indicating or relating to a constituency which returns more than one member in an election
- mumbletypeg — 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.
- mutableness — The quality of being mutable.
- 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.