12-letter words containing e, b, o, l, a
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- normalizable — That can be normalized.
- notabilities — Plural form of notability.
- note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- nuclear bomb — atomic explosive
- object glass — objective (def 3).
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- oblanceolate — inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
- obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- obtuse angle — an angle greater than 90° but less than 180°.
- octosyllable — a word or line of verse of eight syllables.
- olallieberry — a blackberry that is a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, cultivated in California and Oregon.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- omnishambles — Chiefly British Informal. a situation, especially in politics, in which poor judgment results in disorder or chaos with potentially disastrous consequences.
- on a bowline — beating close to the wind
- on behalf of — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
- on the table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- osteoblastic — a bone-forming cell.
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
- palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
- paleobiology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
- parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phlebography — venography.
- photolyzable — able to undergo photolysis
- piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- polysyllable — a polysyllabic word.
- port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
- problem area — a place that is prone to a particular problem or danger, such as flooding or road-traffic accidents
- problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic