12-letter words containing l, u, b, i
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lubberliness — Quality of being lubberly.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- 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.
- lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
- magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
- mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
- malibu board — a lightweight, fiberglass-covered surfboard, usually about 10 feet (3 meters) long with a rounded nose and tail and a convex bottom for increased maneuverability.
- mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
- mare liberum — a body of navigable water to which all nations have unrestricted access.
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- microtubular — Of or pertaining to microtubules.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- 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.
- millicoulomb — a unit of electrical charge equal to one thousandth of a coulomb: Abbreviation: mC.
- mouldability — a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state.
- much obliged — expressions used when one wants to indicate that one is very grateful for something
- multibillion — Denoting something costing or valued at several billions of a currency.
- multilobular — having several or many lobules.
- multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- multitubular — Having many tubes.
- 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.
- myclobutanil — A triazole fungicide that works by inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis.
- nebulization — to reduce to fine spray; atomize.
- nebulosities — Plural form of nebulosity.
- neurobiology — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
- noctambulism — somnambulism.
- noctambulist — somnambulism.
- non-dutiable — subject to customs duty, as imported goods.
- non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- noninducible — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- obambulation — (obsolete) Wandering about; a casual outing.
- obnubilation — to cloud over; becloud; obscure.