9-letter words containing a, b, o, l
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- last-born — last in order of birth; youngest.
- laterborn — born later
- layabouts — Plural form of layabout.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- libations — Plural form of libation.
- liberator — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- libration — a real or apparent oscillatory motion, especially of the moon.
- libratory — oscillatory.
- lie about — sth: remain unused
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lightboat — a small lightship.
- loanblend — a compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements.
- lobengula — ?1836–94, last Matabele king (1870–93); his kingdom was destroyed by the British
- lobularly — in a lobular manner
- lobulated — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
- local bus — (hardware) A bus connecting a processor to memory, usually on the same circuit board as opposed to a backplane and therefore faster. Various proprietary local busses for personal computers are still in use. The most common are Vesa local bus (VLB or VL), and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI). Some computers, e.g. notebook computers, use a local bus with no expansion slots. Previous non-local bus standards include ISA, EISA and MCA.
- locatable — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
- lodgeable — Capable of being lodged.
- log cabin — house made of trimmed tree trunks
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- lombardia — a region of N central Italy, bordering on the Alps: dominated by prosperous lordships and city-states during the Middle Ages; later ruled by Spain and then by Austria before becoming part of Italy in 1859; intensively cultivated and in parts highly industrialized. Pop: 9 108 645 (2003 est). Area: 23 804 sq km (9284 sq miles)
- lombardic — a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
- longbeard — bellarmine.
- longboard — A type of long surfboard.
- longboats — Plural form of longboat.
- longobard — Lombard1 (def 2).
- look back — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- los banos — a town in central California.
- low board — a diving board 1 meter (3.2 feet) above the water.
- low brass — an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent zinc, with traces of lead and iron.
- lowballed — Simple past tense and past participle of lowball.
- lyon bean — a vine, Mucuna niveum, of southern Asia and the Philippines, having showy clusters of white flowers and whitish hairy pods, grown widely as a forage crop.
- mail bomb — letter bomb.
- mail-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- mailboxes — Plural form of mailbox.
- make bold — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- may blobs — marsh marigold.
- memorable — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- memorably — worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.
- mesoblast — the mesoderm.
- metabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- microbial — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- millboard — a strong, thick pasteboard used to make book covers.
- mislabour — to labour wrongly
- moldboard — the curved metal plate in a plow that turns over the earth from the furrow.
- mole crab — a burrowing crustacean of the genus Emerita, found on sandy ocean beaches of North America, having a distinctly curved carapace.