12-letter words containing c, l, e, b
- irreplicable — Incapable of being replicated.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- knuckle ball — a slow pitch that moves erratically toward home plate, usually delivered by holding the ball between the thumb and the knuckles of the first joints of the first two or three fingers.
- knuckleballs — Plural form of knuckleball.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- 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.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- leachability — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- leader cable — a submarine cable laid along a channel and emitting signals that a vessel can follow when visibility is poor.
- leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- liberalistic — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
- little abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
- magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
- mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
- mecca balsam — balm-of-Gilead (def 2).
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- mental block — inability to recall
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microblogger — to post very short entries, as a brief update or a photo, on a blog or social media website: A lot of people were microblogging during the crisis.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.
- monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
- monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
- motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- 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.
- myrtle beach — a town in E South Carolina.
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- non-celibate — a person who abstains from sexual relations.
- non-credible — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.
- non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.