12-letter words containing l, u, m
- automobilism — the use of automobiles, or the practices associated with them
- automobilist — Driver; person who uses a motor vehicle such as car, van or truck.
- automobility — the use of motor cars
- autonomously — Government. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
- autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
- balsamaceous — any of various fragrant exudations from certain trees, especially trees of the genus Commiphora, as balm-of-Gilead. Compare balm (def 1).
- bed moulding — a moulding in an entablature between the corona and the frieze
- befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- bermuda lily — a lily, Lilium longiflorum eximium, having white, funnel-shaped flowers, cultivated especially as an Easter lily.
- bicycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- bilingualism — Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages equally well.
- bimillennium — a period of two thousand years
- biomolecular — relating to a biomolecule
- blabbermouth — a person who talks too much or indiscreetly
- black muslim — a member of the Black Muslims
- blind summit — a point on a road where a vehicle approaching the top of a hill or incline cannot see vehicles approaching up the other side of the hill
- blood volume — the total quantity of blood in the body
- blue helmets — armed troops under the sponsorship of the United Nations, used for peacekeeping
- blue jasmine — a southern U.S. shrubby vine, Clematis crispa, of the buttercup family, having solitary, bell-shaped, blue or bluish-purple to pink flowers and bearing fruit with silky appendages.
- blue melilot — a European plant, Trigonella caerulea, of the legume family, having long-stalked clusters of blue and white flowers.
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- bristlemouth — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Gonostomatidae, having numerous sharp, slender teeth covering the jaws.
- bubblegummer — a young teenager; adolescent.
- bulk modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance equal to minus the ratio of the applied stress (p) to the resulting fractional change in volume (dV/V) in a specified reference state (dV/V is the bulk strain)
- bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
- bullamakanka — an imaginary very remote and backward place
- bumble-puppy — a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
- bumbleheaded — clumsy, plodding, or foolish: He stumbled through the talk in his bumbleheaded way.
- bur marigold — any plant of the genus Bidens that has yellow flowers and pointed fruits that cling to fur and clothing: family Asteraceae (composites)
- burial mound — a barrow
- burnt almond — a sweet consisting of an almond enclosed in burnt sugar
- cadmium cell — a photocell with a cadmium electrode that is especially sensitive to ultraviolet radiation
- calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
- calceamentum — (in ancient Rome) a sandal, boot, shoe, or other type of footwear
- calumet city — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- calumniating — Present participle of calumniate.
- calumniation — to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
- calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
- calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
- calumniously — in a calumnious manner
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
- camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
- carbamylurea — biuret.
- catechumenal — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- caustic lime — lime1 (def 1).
- cerium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the terbium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
- chaulmoogras — Plural form of chaulmoogra.
- chlorambucil — an alkylating drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases. Formula: C14H19Cl2NO2
- chlorophytum — any plant of the genus Chlorophytum, esp C. elatum variegatum, grown as a pot plant for its long narrow leaves with a light central stripe, and characterized by the production of offsets at the end of long scapes: family Liliaceae