13-letter words containing i, b, l, s
- listenability — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
- livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
- lubber's line — a vertical line on the forward inner side of the bowl of a fixed compass, used as a reference mark indicating the heading of a vessel.
- luxembourgish — Also, Luxembourgish [luhk-suh m-bur-gish] /ˈlʌk səmˌbɜr gɪʃ/ (Show IPA). Letzeburgesch.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- malabsorbtion — Misspelling of malabsorption.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
- memorabiliast — a person who collects mementos or souvenirs, as postcards or playbills.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- metastability — An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
- microbalances — Plural form of microbalance.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- midterm blues — the tendency of electorate to grow disillusioned with government around halfway through its term of office
- military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
- millilamberts — Plural form of millilambert.
- mindblindness — The inability to deduce or make educated guesses about another person's mental state.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- miserableness — The property of being miserable.
- mixed doubles — (in tennis) a doubles match with a man and a woman on each side.
- mobile studio — a van, truck, etc equipped as a recording, broadcasting etc studio
- mobilizations — Plural form of mobilization.
- monosyllabics — Plural form of monosyllabic.
- monosyllabism — monosyllabic character.
- morbillivirus — a genus of viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae causing infectious diseases such as measles, distemper, or rinderpest
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- mosbolletjies — Plural form of mosbolletjie.
- motorbicycles — Plural form of motorbicycle.
- multibusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- multisyllabic — polysyllabic.
- multisyllable — polysyllable.
- myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- navigableness — Quality of being navigable.
- needle biopsy — the removal of a small amount of tissue or cellular material with a long hollow surgical needle, performed for diagnostic purposes.
- neoliberalism — an outgrowth of the U.S. liberal movement, beginning in the late 1960s, that modified somewhat its traditional endorsement of all trade unions and opposition to big business and military buildup.
- neoliberalist — A supporter of neoliberalism.
- nesting table — one of a set of usually three or four small tables that are graduated in size so that they may be stacked on top of one another.
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- non-spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
- nondiffusible — not diffusible
- nondigestible — Not digestible.
- nondisposable — Not disposable.
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
- nonreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.