15-letter words containing b, l, e, o
- globe lightning — ball lightning.
- go to the block — to be beheaded
- 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.
- greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- 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.
- hobbledehoyhood — The period of time of being a hobbledehoy; awkward adolescence.
- hot-bulb engine — a low-compression oil engine requiring a heated bulb or cap for ignition.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- 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
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- 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.
- hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
- in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
- irreconcileable — Alternative spelling of irreconcilable.
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- irritable colon — any combination of common disturbances of the bowel, as diarrhea or constipation, occurring with abdominal pain, sometimes accompanied by psychological stress. Abbreviation: IBS.
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
- journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
- jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
- keyboard plaque — (jargon) The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
- keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
- labor relations — worker-employer relationship
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
- lake okeechobee — a lake in S Florida, in the Everglades: second largest freshwater lake wholly within the US. Area: 1813 sq km (700 sq miles)
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.