11-letter words containing c, a, b, l, e
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- 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.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- lucky break — a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- lumberjacks — Plural form of lumberjack.
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- machineable — Alternative form of machinable.
- malebranche — Nicolas de [nee-kaw-lah duh] /ni kɔˈlɑ də/ (Show IPA), 1638–1715, French philosopher.
- marble cake — a cake given a streaked, marblelike appearance by the incomplete mixing of dark, especially chocolate, and light batters.
- marcescible — prone to fade or decay
- medicinable — medicinal.
- melba sauce — a clear raspberry sauce, used especially as a dessert topping.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mescal bean — an evergreen shrub or small tree, Sophora secundiflora, of the legume family, of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, having clusters of fragrant, violet-blue flowers and pods containing highly poisonous, bright red seeds.
- mesoblastic — (biology) of, relating to, or resembling the mesoblast.
- metabolical — Alternative form of metabolic.
- misbalanced — badly balanced
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- neglectable — Small enough, or unimportant enough to be neglected; negligible.
- non-citable — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- noncallable — not capable of being called.
- nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
- object ball — the first ball struck by the cue ball in making a carom. Compare carom ball.
- objectional — Objectionable.
- obstetrical — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- off balance — If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- overbalance — to outweigh: The opportunity overbalances the disadvantages of leaving town.
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- parableptic — relating to parablepsis
- parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
- peace lobby — a lobby for peace or the end of conflict
- peach melba — a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.
- peche melba — peach Melba.
- pencil beam — a cone-shaped radar beam.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- perceivable — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- practicable — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- prebiblical — written, existing or occurring prior to the writing of the Bible; pertaining to this time period
- predictable — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.