12-letter words containing b, i, n, o
- job printing — commercial printing of such items as letterheads, circulars, invitations, etc.
- job rotation — the practice of transferring an employee from one work station or activity to another during the working day in order to add variety to a job: often used in assembly line work
- john bircher — Bircher.
- junction box — an enclosure that houses electric wires or cables that are joined together and protects the connections.
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- kite balloon — a barrage balloon intended for use in information-gathering and observation; it is usually tethered to the ground and has lobes to keep it stable and pointing into the wind
- kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
- klein bottle — a one-sided figure consisting of a tapered tube the narrow end of which is bent back, run through the side of the tube, and flared to join the wide end, thereby allowing any two points on the figure to be joined by an unbroken line.
- labanotation — a system for recording ballet movements invented by Rudolph Laban
- labia minora — female genitals: inner folds of skin
- labilization — to cause to become labile.
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboratorian — 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.
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lawn bowling — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
- letterboxing — Also, letter box. Chiefly British. a public or private mailbox.
- liberational — Relating to, or aiding, liberation; liberatory.
- liberty bond — a single Liberty loan bond.
- liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
- libidinosity — lustfulness
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- lifting body — an aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which there are no wings, and lift is obtained by aerodynamic forces on its body.
- line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
- load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- london broil — a steak, typically served broiled and crosscut into thin slices.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- 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.
- male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- marine borer — any mollusc or crustacean that lives usually in warm seas and destroys wood by boring into and eating it. The gribble and shipworm are the best known since they penetrate any wood in favourable water
- mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
- masturbation — the stimulation or manipulation of one's own genitals, especially to orgasm; sexual self-gratification.
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabolizing — Present participle of metabolize.
- metabonomics — (biochemistry, genetics) metabolomics.
- michel baron — Michel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA), (Michel Boyron) 1653–1729, French actor.
- microbalance — a balance for weighing minute quantities of material.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- mind-blowing — overwhelming; astounding: Spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience.
- mindboggling — That causes the mind to boggle; that is beyond one's ability to understand or figure out; bewildering; mystifying.
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
- mobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.