11-letter words containing l, u, b, e, c
- mecklenburg — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
- melba sauce — a clear raspberry sauce, used especially as a dessert topping.
- microbubble — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- musclebound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- nucleobases — Plural form of nucleobase.
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- public debt — national debt.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- public sale — auction (def 1).
- publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- racquetball — a game similar to handball, played on a four-walled court but with a short-handled, strung racket and a larger, somewhat softer ball.
- recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- recuperable — capable of recuperation
- relubricate — to lubricate again or with new lubricant
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- ribonucleic — an acid derived from ribose
- scaberulous — tending to be scabrous or slightly rough to the touch
- scuttlebutt — Nautical. an open cask of drinking water. a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel.
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- sub-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- sub-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subcellular — contained within a cell.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjectless — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- sublicensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a sublicense is granted.
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- supper club — a nightclub, especially a small, luxurious one.
- susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
- suspectable — that could be suspected
- suspectible — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- suzie cobol — /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. (IBM, probably from Frank Zappa's "Suzy Creamcheese") A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid accusations of sexism) "Sammy Cobol" or (in some non-IBM circles) "Cobol Charlie". 2. (proposed) Meta-name for any code grinder, analogous to J. Random Hacker.