12-letter words containing l, e, t, b
- embolization — (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
- embryologist — An expert or specialist in embryology.
- enabling act — a legislative act conferring certain specified powers on a person or organization
- endless belt — a continuous belt used in various applications, particularly to run over wheels
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- enfeeblement — The act of enfeebling; debilitation, enervation or devitalization.
- enjoyability — The state or condition of being enjoyable.
- entablatures — Plural form of entablature.
- equilibrants — Plural form of equilibrant.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- equilibrator — Lb rare A device that maintain equilibrium or balance, especially a part of a heavy gun (e.g. an artillery piece or a tank gun) which balances the barrel and other parts so as to enable the gun to be elevated easily.
- equilibrists — Plural form of equilibrist.
- equitability — The quality of being equitable; equitableness.
- erythroblast — An immature erythrocyte containing a nucleus.
- establishing — Present participle of establish.
- ethnobiology — the branch of biology involving the study of the uses of plants and animals in various human societies
- ethylbenzene — A colorless, flammable liquid hydrocarbon, used in the manufacture of styrene.
- evolvability — (biology) The ability of a particular organism to evolve.
- excitability — (uncountable) The state of being excitable.
- exobiologist — A biologist whose speciality is exobiology.
- exorbitantly — In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
- exterminable — Capable of being exterminated.
- extraditable — (of a crime) rendering the offender liable to extradition
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flat battery — power cell that has run down
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- frequentable — Accessible.
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.