16-letter words containing b, o, i, l, e, r
- full to the brim — If something, especially a container, is filled to the brim or full to the brim with something, it is filled right up to the top.
- garbage disposal — A garbage disposal or a garbage disposal unit is a small machine in the kitchen sink that breaks down waste matter so that it does not block the sink.
- get into trouble — be punished for wrongdoing
- globigerina ooze — a calcareous deposit occurring upon ocean beds and consisting mainly of the shells of dead foraminifers, especially globigerina.
- heterometabolism — insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage
- hold a brief for — to argue for; champion
- hyaloid membrane — the delicate, pellucid, and nearly structureless membrane enclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- incommensurables — Plural form of incommensurable.
- incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
- incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
- inter-laboratory — 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.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- intercalibration — to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- irresolvableness — The state or quality of being irresolvable.
- irresponsibility — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- isobutyl nitrite — butyl nitrite.
- isopropylbenzene — cumene.
- julius rosenberg — Alfred, 1893–1946, German Nazi ideologist and political leader, born in Estonia.
- kirribilli house — the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister
- labour relations — Labour relations refers to the relationship between employers and employees in industry, and the political decisions and laws that affect it.
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- libation-bearers — Choëphori.
- liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
- liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
- little brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
- longicorn beetle — any beetle of the family Cerambycidae, having a long narrow body, long legs, and long antennae
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- louise bourgeois — Léon Victor Auguste [ley-awn veek-tawr oh-gyst] /leɪˈɔ̃ vikˈtɔr oʊˈgyst/ (Show IPA), 1851–1925, French statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1920.
- magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
- marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
- megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
- modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
- mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
- neuroborreliosis — A disorder of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia.
- nibble mode dram — (storage) A standard DRAM where four successive bits can be clocked out of the single data line by successive pulses on the CAS\ line while RAS\ is active. A column address is only required for the first bit. This mode is now unfashionable but can be found on some older 64 kilobit and 256 kilobit chips.
- nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
- non-attributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
- non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
- non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
- non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.