14-letter words containing l, u, e, b
- insuppressible — incapable of being suppressed; irrepressible: his insuppressible humor.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- irreducibility — (uncountable) The quality or degree of being irreducible.
- irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
- irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
- irresuscitable — incapable of being resuscitated
- irresuscitably — in an irresuscitable manner
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- journal bronze — an alloy of about 83 percent copper, 13 percent tin, 3 percent zinc, and 1 percent lead.
- kealakekua bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the W (Kona) coast of Hawaii Island: Capt. James Cook was killed here 1779.
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- lake bangweulu — a shallow lake in NE Zambia, discovered by David Livingstone, who died there in 1873. Area: about 9850 sq km (3800 sq miles), including swamps
- lamb's lettuce — corn salad.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- laundry basket — container for clothes and linen
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- leibniz's rule — a rule for finding the derivative of the product of two functions. For a first derivative it is d(uv)/dx = udv/dx + vdu/dx
- leukocytoblast — the precursor cell to a mature leukocyte
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- licence number — an identifying number on a licence or licence plate that identifies it with the owner
- license number — The license number of a car or other road vehicle is the series of letters and numbers that are shown at the front and back of it.
- limburg cheese — a semihard white cheese of very strong smell and flavour
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
- liqueur brandy — sweetened flavoured brandy
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- lumbersomeness — the state of being lumbersome
- magdeburg laws — the local laws of the city of Magdeburg, which were adopted by many European cities in the middle ages
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- marmalade bush — a shrub, Streptosolen jamesonii, of the nightshade family, native to South America, bearing showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers, grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- methylene blue — a dark-green, crystalline compound, C 1 6 H 1 8 ClN 3 S, that dissolves in water to form a deep-blue solution: used chiefly as a dye, as a bacteriological and biological stain, and as an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- millennium bug — Year 2000
- miller's thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- miller's-thumb — any of several small, freshwater sculpins of the genus Cottus, of Europe and North America.
- mirabile dictu — wonderful to relate; amazing to say
- molecular beam — a stream of molecules freed from a substance, usually a salt, by evaporation and then passed through a narrow slit for focusing, for investigating the properties of nuclei, atoms, and molecules.
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- multibarrelled — (of a gun) having more than one barrel
- multichambered — comprising or involving several chambers
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time