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12-letter words containing t, a, b, l

  • lactobacilli — Plural form of lactobacillus.
  • lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
  • lake balaton — a large shallow lake in W Hungary. Area: 689 sq km (266 sq miles)
  • lamb's tails — burro's tail.
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • lark bunting — a finch, Calamospiza melanocorys, of the western U.S., the male of which is black with a large, white patch on each wing.
  • last but one — next to last
  • late bloomer — a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop: A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.
  • latex rubber — rubber used to make many products such as gloves, condoms, etc, and which is made from latex, a whitish milky fluid containing protein, starch, alkaloids, etc, that is produced by many plants
  • lay sth bare — If you lay bare something or someone, you reveal or expose them.
  • lay store by — to value or reckon as important
  • leachability — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
  • leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
  • league table — competitive ranking
  • learnability — (uncountable) the condition of being learnable.
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • liberal arts — humanities and social sciences
  • liberalistic — the quality or state of being liberal, as in behavior or attitude.
  • liberalities — Plural form of liberality.
  • liberatingly — In a liberating manner.
  • liberational — Relating to, or aiding, liberation; liberatory.
  • libertarians — Plural form of libertarian.
  • liberty hall — a place or condition of complete liberty
  • liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
  • linen basket — a basket or container with a lid in which you put your dirty clothes before washing them
  • little abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
  • lobster tail — the flesh of the tail of any of various crustaceans, esp. the Cape crawfish, prepared as food, often by broiling in the shell
  • longboat key — a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, SW of Florida, sheltering Sarasota Bay: sports fishing.
  • lord's table — the, communion table.
  • lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
  • lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
  • machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
  • magic bullet — something that cures or remedies without causing harmful side effects: So far there is no magic bullet for economic woes.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • mailing tube — an elongated cylinder of cardboard, used for mailing rolled-up papers, magazines, etc.
  • maintainable — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
  • malleability — the state of being malleable, or capable of being shaped, as by hammering or pressing: the extreme malleability of gold.
  • mandibulated — Provided with mandibles adapted for biting; mandibulate.
  • mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
  • maple butter — thickened maple syrup
  • matabeleland — a region in Zimbabwe, formerly a province of Rhodesia, home to the Ndebele (Matabele).
  • melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
  • memorability — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
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