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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
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