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11-letter words containing l, i, k, e, b

  • fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
  • goldbricked — Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick.
  • goldbricker — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • irrevokable — Alternative spelling of irrevocable.
  • jailbreaker — One who breaks out of jail.
  • killer bars — an imprint consisting of a series of wavy lines used to cancel postage stamps.
  • killer blow — something that puts a stop to something or defeats something
  • killer boat — a boat used for hunting whales and towing them to a factory ship.
  • king's blue — cobalt blue.
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • lake baikal — a lake in Russia, in SE Siberia: the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia and the deepest in the world. Greatest depth: over 1500 m (5000 ft). Area: about 33 670 sq km (13 000 sq miles)
  • lake kariba — a dam built across the Zambezi for the purposes of generating hydroelectric power; it created Lake Kariba on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border
  • lawbreaking — Unlawful; illegal.
  • likableness — The property of being likable, that which makes likable.
  • like a bird — without resistance or difficulty
  • like a bomb — with great speed or success; very well (esp in the phrase go like a bomb)
  • like billyo — (intensifier)
  • like blazes — with furious energy, speed, etc.
  • likeability — readily or easily liked; pleasing: a likable young man.
  • linebackers — Plural form of linebacker.
  • linebacking — the act of forming a second line of defence, close to the linesman
  • lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
  • lobsterlike — Resembling a lobster or some aspect of one.
  • makebelieve — Alternative form of make-believe.
  • milk bottle — a glass bottle in which milk is sold, esp when it is distributed by a milkman
  • mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
  • nickel belt — the area around Sudbury in Northern Ontario, rich in nickel ore
  • nonsinkable — (of items designed to float on water) not liable to sink
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • rib-tickler — very amusing; funny or hilarious: a book of rib-tickling stories.
  • sabine lake — a shallow lake on the boundary between Texas and Louisiana, formed by a widening of the Sabine River. About 17 miles (27 km) long; 7 miles (11 km) wide.
  • silver book — (publication)   Jensen and Wirth's infamous "Pascal User Manual and Report", so called because of the silver cover of the widely distributed Springer-Verlag second edition of 1978 (ISBN 0-387-90144-2). See also book titles, Pascal.
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
  • swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
  • telebanking — a facility enabling customers to make use of banking services by means of a computer network
  • undrinkable — suitable for drinking.
  • unthinkable — inconceivable; unimaginable: the unthinkable size of the universe.
  • walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
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