13-letter words containing b, o, n
- 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.
- loblolly pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
- loebner prize — (artificial intelligence) An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Loebner of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test. Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer, Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich Capital Markets, Motorola, the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation. The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition. Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
- 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
- lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- lunar rainbow — moonbow.
- luncheon club — (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- 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.
- made-down bed — a makeshift bed, as a pallet, placed on the floor for sleeping.
- make no bones — If you make no bones about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.
- malabsorbtion — Misspelling of malabsorption.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- managed bonds — investment in a combination of fixed interest securities, equities, gilts, and property, in which an investment manager, acting on a client's behalf, varies the amount invested in each according to the returns expected
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- mao inhibitor — any of various substances, as isocarboxazid and phenelzine, that block enzymatic breakdown of certain monoamine neurotransmitters: used to treat severe depression. Abbreviation: MAOI.
- marbleization — The process of marbleizing.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- membrane bone — a bone that develops from membranous tissue.
- membranophone — any musical instrument, as a drum, in which the sound is produced by striking, rubbing, or blowing against a membrane stretched over a frame.
- memorableness — Memorability.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- messenger boy — A messenger boy is a boy who is employed to take messages to people.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- methemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- microbalances — Plural form of microbalance.
- microblogging — a blog that is smaller than a traditional blog and contains very short entries.
- microbusiness — A business that operates on a very small scale.
- mind-boggling — intellectually overwhelming: a mind-boggling puzzle.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- moabite stone — a slab of black basalt bearing an inscription recording the victory of Mesha, the king of Moab, over the Israelites, about 860 b.c.
- mobile number — a set of figures identifying the mobile telephone of a particular subscriber, and used in making connections to that telephone
- mobile triton — (processor) (Official name 82430MX) A version of Intel's Triton I processor chip set intended for mobile computers. Mobile Triton consists of one 82437MX and two 82438MX.
- mobilizations — Plural form of mobilization.
- modern hebrew — the living language of modern Israel, a revived form of ancient Hebrew. Abbreviation: ModHeb.
- molding board — a board upon which bread is kneaded, cookies prepared, etc.
- money grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- money to burn — more money than one needs
- money-grubber — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- moneygrubbers — Plural form of moneygrubber.