13-letter words containing b, o, a
- jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
- jacob s coxey — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
- jebel toubkal — a mountain in SW Morocco: highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. 13,671 feet (4167 meters).
- job applicant — candidate for an advertised post
- jolly balance — a spring balance used for determining the density of a sample by comparison of its weight in air and water.
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- keep on about — If you say that someone keeps on about something, you mean that they keep talking about it in a boring way.
- know by heart — have memorized
- knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- kota kinabalu — a state in Malaysia, on the N tip of Borneo: formerly a British crown colony. 29,347 sq. mi. (76,008 sq. km). Capital: Kota Kinabalu.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- labialization — to give a labial character to (a sound), for example, to round (a vowel).
- labiogression — location of the anterior teeth forward of their natural position.
- labor of love — work done for the sake of one's own enjoyment or of benefit to others rather than for material rewards: He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.
- laboriousness — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labour market — When you talk about the labour market, you are referring to all the people who are able to work and want jobs in a country or area, in relation to the number of jobs there are available in that country or area.
- labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
- labour unrest — unrest or dissatisfaction displayed by workers, often in the form of strikes, and sometimes violent disputes, etc, which disrupts normal business
- labour-saving — A labour-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- labrador duck — an extinct sea duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius, of northern North America, having black and white plumage.
- lacrimal bone — a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- lactoglobulin — A protein or mixture of similar proteins occurring in milk, obtained after the removal of casein and precipitated in a salt solution.
- lake manitoba — a lake in W Canada, in S Manitoba: fed by the outflow from Lake Winnipegosis; drains into Lake Winnipeg. Area: 4706 sq km (1817 sq miles)
- lamb's tongue — a molding having a deep, symmetrical profile ending in a narrow edge, as in a sash bar.
- lambda prolog — (language) An extension of standard Prolog defined by Dale A. Miller and Gopalan Nadathur in 1986, in which terms are strongly typed lambda terms. Clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. The Prolog/Mali compiler compiles Lambda Prolog for the MALI abstract memory system. Mailing list: [email protected]
- lambeosaurine — Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.
- late-blooming — of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
- lavatory bowl — the part inside a lavatory containing water and fitted with a water-flushing device and connected to a drain
- lay about one — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- leading block — lead block.
- leave sb cold — If something leaves you cold, it fails to excite or interest you.
- lemon verbena — a plant, Aloysia triphylla, having long, slender leaves with a lemonlike fragrance.
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- lo and behold — Lo and behold or lo is used to emphasize a surprising event that is about to be mentioned, or to emphasize in a humorous way that something is not surprising at all.
- lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
- losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
- low-bandwidth — [communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative. "That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of suits!" Compare zero-content, bandwidth, math-out.
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- lunar rainbow — moonbow.
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
- macroglobulin — A plasma globulin of high molecular weight.