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16-letter words containing b, o, l, a, n

  • incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
  • inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
  • 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).
  • interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
  • irresolvableness — The state or quality of being irresolvable.
  • isoamyl benzoate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 15 O 2 , having a sharp, fruitlike odor: used in cosmetics.
  • japanese bobtail — any of a breed of domestic cat, originating in Japan, with a very short, fluffy tail, and a soft, silky coat often in three colors, white, black, and red
  • kit and caboodle — a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
  • knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • knowledgeability — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • labour agreement — a contract between workers and managers setting out working conditions, wages, etc
  • 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.
  • labrador current — a cold ocean current flowing southwards off the coast of Labrador and meeting the warm Gulf Stream, causing dense fogs off the coast of Newfoundland
  • labtech notebook — (tool, product)   Commercial data aquisition software.
  • 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
  • lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
  • leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
  • libation-bearers — Choëphori.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • 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.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
  • mönchen-gladbach — city in WC Germany, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 266,000
  • monosyllabically — In single syllables.
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • national library — a library established and funded by a national government with the designation national, to serve the needs of this government, often to function as a library of record for the nation's publishing output, and in some cases to act as a central agency for library and bibliographic development in the nation.
  • 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-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • 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-availability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • non-debilitating — to make weak or feeble; enfeeble: The siege of pneumonia debilitated her completely.
  • non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
  • non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
  • non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
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