12-letter words containing m, l, a, b
- timbale iron — a metal mold made in any of several shapes and usually provided with a long handle, for deep-frying timbales.
- to jump bail — If a prisoner jumps bail, he or she does not come back for his or her trial after being released on bail.
- tom o'bedlam — a roving beggar afflicted with or feigning madness.
- troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- tumbler gear — a transmission having gears actuated by a tumbler.
- tyndall beam — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
- umbilication — a central navellike depression.
- unambivalent — not ambivalent; definite; certain.
- uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- uncomputable — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- unemployable — unsuitable for employment; unable to find or keep a job.
- unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
- unflamboyant — not flamboyant
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unimaginable — capable of being imagined or conceived.
- unimpugnable — not capable of being challenged or criticized
- unmanageable — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- unmanageably — in a way that is unmanageable, or to an unmanageable extent
- unmarketable — readily salable.
- unmeasurable — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmeasurably — of undetermined or indefinitely great extent or amount; unlimited; measureless: the unmeasured heavens.
- unmistakable — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmistakably — not mistakable; clear; obvious.
- unmodifiable — incapable of being modified
- unredeemable — capable of being redeemed.
- unreformable — not able to be reformed or reclaimed
- unremarkable — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- unremarkably — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
- unremediable — capable of being remedied.
- unremittable — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- unsublimated — Psychology. to divert 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.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- xylobalsamum — the dried, fragrant wood of the Balsamodendron gileadense that produces resin known as Balm of Gilead
- zalambdodont — (zoology) Having teeth with two ridges that meet at an angle, forming the letter lambda.
- zebra mussel — a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously affecting water pipes, other fauna, etc.