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11-letter words containing l, o, b, u

  • floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
  • floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
  • four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
  • free labour — the labour of workers who are not members of trade unions
  • full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
  • full-bodied — of full strength, flavor, richness, etc.: full-bodied wine; full-bodied writing.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • glamour boy — a man whose appearance or lifestyle is considered glamorous by popular standards.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
  • go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
  • golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
  • golden bull — an edict of Charles IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, issued in 1356 and in force until the extinction of the empire in 1806, in which the selection of the emperor was entrusted to seven Electors.
  • golden club — an aquatic plant, Orontium aquaticum, of the arum family, native to the eastern U.S., having blue-green leaves and a clublike spadix covered with tiny yellow flowers.
  • ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
  • gumbo-limbo — a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.
  • gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
  • harbourless — Without a harbour.
  • hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
  • hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
  • holus-bolus — all at once; altogether.
  • homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
  • hullaballoo — Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
  • hullabaloos — Plural form of hullabaloo.
  • indigo blue — indigo (def 4).
  • indubiously — Synonym of without a doubt.
  • irresoluble — incapable of being solved or clarified.
  • irresolubly — In a irresoluble manner.
  • isobutylene — a colorless, very volatile liquid or flammable gas, C 4 H 8 , used chiefly in the manufacture of butyl rubber.
  • jockey club — an association for the regulation and promotion of thoroughbred horse racing, usually composed of racing officials and thoroughbred owners at a specific racetrack or in a particular region.
  • journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
  • knucklebone — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
  • koulibiacas — Plural form of koulibiaca.
  • labor union — an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.
  • laboriously — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
  • labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
  • labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
  • libellously — in a libellous manner
  • lignotubers — Plural form of lignotuber.
  • lockout box — Television. lockbox (def 3).
  • locust bean — carob.
  • locust bird — any of various pratincoles, esp Glareola nordmanni (black-winged pratincole), that feed on locusts
  • lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
  • lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • lubritorium — a place, as in a service station, for the lubrication of motor vehicles
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
  • lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
  • lumbaginous — relating to, or suffering from, lumbago
  • lumber room — a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.
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