13-letter words containing m, a, b, u
- hail columbia — hell (used as a euphemism): He caught Hail Columbia for coming home late.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- hothouse lamb — a lamb born in the fall or early winter, usually reared indoors, specially fed, and marketed when from 9 to 16 weeks of age.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- immunity bath — the giving of testimony that is self-incriminating in order to avail oneself of the immunity granted a witness.
- immutableness — The state of being immutable; unchangeableness.
- imperturbable — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
- lumber jacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.
- mahabalipuram — a village in NE Tamil Nadu, in SE India: Hindu temples; early Dravidian architecture.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- marble quarry — a quarry where marble is extracted
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- mean business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- minisubmarine — A small submarine.
- misattributed — Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute.
- mosquito boat — PT boat.
- mount gambier — a city in S Australia.
- mount lebanon — a town in SW Pennsylvania, SW of Pittsburgh.
- mountain bike — dirt bike, off-road cycle
- mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- mountebanking — Present participle of mountebank.
- mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
- mouthbreather — a person who breathes through the mouth instead of through the nose
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- multiplicable — capable of being multiplied.
- multisyllabic — polysyllabic.
- multisyllable — polysyllable.
- multivariable — having, involving or relying upon two or more variables, esp in statistics
- multivibrator — A device consisting of two amplifying transistors or valves, each with its output connected to the input of the other, producing an oscillatory signal.