10-letter words containing a, l, o, b, r
- inoperable — not operable or practicable.
- isabnormal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal deviation from the normal value of some meteorological quantity, as temperature.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- jubilatory — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- labiovelar — pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- laboratory — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions
- labourious — Lb nonstandard Alternative form of from=UK.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- lag b'omer — a Jewish festival celebrated on the 18th day of Iyar, being the 33rd day of the Omer, traditionally in commemoration of the end of the plague that killed Rabbi Akiba's students or of the bravery of Bar Kokba.
- laminboard — A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.
- lar gibbon — white-handed gibbon.
- lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
- lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- liberators — 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.
- liberatory — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- linerboard — a type of paperboard used especially for containers, as corrugated boxes.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- loganberry — the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- lounge bar — more elegant bar
- lower back — lumbar region
- lubricator — a person or thing that lubricates.
- lucubrator — One who lucubrates.
- luluabourg — former name of Kananga.
- malar bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- malar-bone — Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
- mandelbrot — designating or of any of various sets of points used in the study of chaos to generate fractals
- marblewood — any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
- microblade — bladelet.
- mirrorball — Alternative spelling of mirror ball.
- mobe pearl — mabe pearl.
- moldboards — Plural form of moldboard.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- mouldboard — A curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow.
- multilobar — of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
- myrobalans — Plural form of myrobalan.
- neoliberal — Relating to a modified form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism.
- neuroblast — an immature nerve cell.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- noel-baker — Philip John, 1889–1982, British statesman and author: Nobel Peace Prize 1959.