12-letter words containing e, m, b, l
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- loose-limbed — having supple arms and legs: a loose-limbed athlete.
- 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.
- luxembourger — a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
- 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.
- magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- maintainable — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- malleability — the state of being malleable, or capable of being shaped, as by hammering or pressing: the extreme malleability of gold.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- 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.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- maple butter — thickened maple syrup
- mare liberum — a body of navigable water to which all nations have unrestricted access.
- marriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
- mass balance — Mass balance is a consideration of the input, output, and distribution of a substance between streams in a process or stage.
- matabeleland — a region in Zimbabwe, formerly a province of Rhodesia, home to the Ndebele (Matabele).
- mean well by — to have good intentions or friendly, helpful feelings toward
- mecca balsam — balm-of-Gilead (def 2).
- mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
- melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
- melon baller — a small cooking utensil with a handle and a rounded scoop, which you insert into a melon and twist to extract a ball of flesh
- memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- mental block — inability to recall
- merchantable — marketable: merchantable war-surplus goods.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- metal lumber — a brand of sheet metal pressed and welded together to form joists and studding.
- mib variable — A managed object that is defined in a Management Information Base (MIB). The object is defined by a textual name and a corresponding object identifier, a syntax, an access mode, a status, and a description of the semantics of the managed object. The MIB Variable contains pertinent management information that is accessible as defined by the access mode.
- 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.
- middlebrowed — midway between highbrow and lowbrow
- middlebuster — Southern U.S. lister1 (def 1).
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- millilambert — a unit of luminance equal to one thousandth of a lambert. Abbreviation: mL.
- misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
- miscalibrate — To calibrate poorly or wrongly.