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12-letter words containing l, i, m, e, b

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
  • memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
  • metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
  • metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
  • metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
  • 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.
  • miserabilism — Gloomy pessimism or negativity.
  • miserabilist — One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
  • missile base — a military base used for storing and firing missiles
  • mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
  • molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
  • 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
  • mosbolletjie — (South Africa) Dough leavened with the must of grapes used for making rusks.
  • motorbicycle — a small, lightweight motorcycle.
  • much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
  • multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • murderabilia — objects that are regarded as valuable because of their connection with murders or other notorious crimes
  • muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
  • muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
  • mutable sign — any of the four astrological signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces, that are grouped together because of their placement at the end of the seasons and characterized by the attribute of adaptability to circumstances.
  • neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
  • nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
  • noble-minded — characterized by morally admirable thought or motives; righteous; worthy.
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