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

  • plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
  • post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
  • postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
  • pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
  • produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
  • pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
  • public good — benefit of all people
  • public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
  • publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
  • pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • purple book — 1.   (publication)   The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2.   (publication)   The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
  • puzzle book — a book of games or questions presenting problems that require skill or ingenuity for their solution
  • quotability — The degree to which a person, literature, or a speech is useful or relevant for being quoted.
  • rambouillet — one of a breed of hardy sheep, developed from the Merino, yielding good mutton and a fine grade of wool.
  • redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
  • retrobulbar — situated behind the eyeball.
  • ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
  • rotary club — a local club of business and professional men that is a member of a world-wide organization of similar clubs (Rotary International) devoted to serving the community and promoting world peace.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • ruling body — authority, group in charge
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
  • scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
  • scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
  • scrobicular — of or relating to the smooth areas on a sea urchin surrounding its nodules
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • slumbersome — tired; sleepy
  • soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
  • social club — A social club is a club where members go in order to meet each other and enjoy leisure activities.
  • soluble rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
  • somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
  • soul-baring — confessing intimate thoughts
  • sound block — a small block of wood for rapping with a gavel.
  • statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
  • sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
  • subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
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