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11-letter words containing m, a, b, l

  • roman blind — a window blind consisting of a length of material which, when drawn up, gathers into horizontal folds from the bottom
  • rumble seat — Also called, British, dickey. a seat recessed into the back of a coupe or roadster, covered by a hinged lid that opens to form the back of the seat when in use.
  • rumbustical — rumbustious
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • saltimbanco — a charlatan or fake
  • saltimbocca — veal and ham wrapped together and sautéed in butter, often seasoned with sage.
  • sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
  • scamblingly — in a scambling, noisy, or intrusive manner
  • sealed-beam — a headlight in which the reflector and lens are hermetically sealed together with the filament in a single unit.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • slumberland — an imaginary land described to children as the place they enter during sleep.
  • sock cymbal — high-hat
  • somnambular — relating to sleep-walking
  • spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
  • st.-lambert — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
  • statcoulomb — the electrostatic unit of a quantity of electricity, equivalent to 3.3356 × 10 −10 coulomb and equal to the quantity of charge transferred in one second across a conductor in which there is a constant current of one statampere.
  • steam table — a boxlike table or counter, usually of stainless steel, with receptacles in the top into which containers of food may be fitted to be kept warm by steam or hot water in the compartment below.
  • strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
  • sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
  • subassemble — to assemble a basic unit of (a larger assembly).
  • subassembly — a structural assembly, as of electronic or machine parts, forming part of a larger assembly.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
  • subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
  • sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
  • submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
  • submittable — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • subumbrella — the concave undersurface of a coelenterate medusa, as a jellyfish.
  • summability — the quality of being summable
  • swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • syllabarium — syllabary.
  • syllabogram — a written symbol representing a single syllable
  • szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
  • table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
  • tamburlaine — Tamerlane.
  • taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.
  • tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
  • thumb glass — a drinking glass having external indentations to allow it to be firmly grasped.
  • timetabling — the act of scheduling something to happen or do something at a particular time
  • tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
  • tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
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