15-letter words containing b, i, o, l
- dropping bottle — a bottle with correlated lengthwise grooves in the neck and in the stopper, permitting a controlled flow of the liquid contents in the form of drops.
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- electronic book — An electronic book is the same as an e-book.
- eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
- embryologically — Regarding embryology.
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
- enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
- exhibition hall — a hall in which pictures, sculptures, or other objects of interest are displayed
- extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
- gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
- gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
- gibraltar board — a type of lining board with a cardboard surface and a gypsum core
- gibson, william — William Gibson
- globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
- globe lightning — ball lightning.
- globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
- gnotobiological — relating to gnotobiology
- golden boy/girl — If you refer to a man as a golden boy or a woman as a golden girl, you mean that they are especially popular and successful.
- great rebellion — English Civil War.
- groutlock brick — a brick chamfered on its inner angles to allow space for vertical and horizontal reinforcing rods sealed in grout.
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
- hard-boiled egg — egg boiled until the yolk is set
- hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
- hot-air balloon — passenger balloon
- hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
- hydrobiological — of or relating to hydrobiology
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
- hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.