10-letter words containing b, e, o
- jabberwock — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jackbooted — wearing jackboots.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- jacobinize — to imbue with Jacobinism.
- jailbroken — an escape from prison, especially by forcible means.
- job centre — In Britain, a job centre is a place where people who are looking for work can go to get advice on finding a job, and to look at advertisements placed by people who are looking for new employees.
- job hopper — a person who job-hops
- job market — the total number of vacant jobs open to those seeking employment.
- job seeker — a person who is actively looking for employment.
- job setter — a worker who readies or adjusts machinery for tooling on the production line.
- job ticket — a slip or card accompanying a job order and used for giving instructions or for recording time spent on the work.
- jobholders — Plural form of jobholder.
- jobseekers — Plural form of jobseeker.
- jockey box — a glove compartment, especially in a truck.
- joe bloggs — an average or typical man
- joe public — also Joe Bloggs; US = John Q. Public
- johnny reb — U.S. History. a Confederate soldier.
- joy buzzer — a device used for a practical joke with a handshake, concealed in the palm of the hand and producing a buzzing sound and an unpleasant vibrating sensation when it is pressed against the victim's hand.
- jubbulpore — Jabalpur.
- jugal bone — (in humans) cheekbone (def 1).
- jute board — a strong, bendable cardboard made from rags and sulfite, used chiefly in the manufacture of shipping cartons.
- keep books — to keep a record of business transactions
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- kerbstones — Plural form of kerbstone.
- keyboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of keyboard.
- keyboarder — One who keyboards; a typist.
- knackebrod — flat, thin, brittle unleavened rye bread.
- knobbiness — the quality or condition of being knobby
- knobkerrie — a short, heavy wooden club with a knob on one end, used especially by native peoples of South Africa for striking and throwing.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- konigsberg — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- labiovelar — pronounced with simultaneous bilabial and velar articulations, as w.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- 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.
- 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.
- le bourget — a suburb of Paris: former airport, landing site for Charles A. Lindbergh, May 1927.
- lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
- lear board — (on a sloping roof) a board laid next to the gutter to receive the turned-up edge of the metal lining.
- lego brick — a toy plastic brick with studs which can be connected to other plastic bricks and used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc
- legoglobin — leghemoglobin.
- lemon balm — any of various oily, fragrant, resinous substances, often of medicinal value, exuding from certain plants, especially tropical trees of the genus Commiphora.
- letter box — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- letterbomb — (messaging) 1. An e-mail message containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's computer or terminal. It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must turn the terminal off to unwedge it. Under Unix, a letterbomb can also try to get part of its contents interpreted as a shell command. The results of this could range from silly to tragic. See also Trojan horse; compare nastygram, talk bomb. 2. Loosely, a mailbomb.
- leuco base — a noncolored or slightly colored compound that is produced by reducing a dye and is readily oxidized to regenerate the dye.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- 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.