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10-letter words containing i, l, b, o

  • lions book — (publication)   "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
  • lions club — any of the local clubs that form the International Association of Lions Clubs, formed in the US in 1917 to foster local and international good relations and service to the community
  • litter box — a sanitary indoor box for pets (esp cats) to dispose urine and faeces
  • little boy — the code name for the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.
  • lobotomies — Plural form of lobotomy.
  • lobotomise — to perform a lobotomy on.
  • lobotomist — to perform a lobotomy on.
  • lobotomize — to perform a lobotomy on.
  • lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
  • lobtailing — (of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
  • lobulation — consisting of, divided into, or having lobes.
  • locomobile — automotive; self-propelling.
  • logic bomb — (programming, security)   Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or operating system that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met. Compare back door.
  • logophobia — an obsessive fear of words.
  • lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
  • louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
  • lovability — of such a nature as to attract love; deserving love; amiable; endearing.
  • lowballing — the practice of offering a customer a deceptively low price
  • lower limb — a limb that is lower or hindmost; a leg
  • lubricator — a person or thing that lubricates.
  • lubricious — arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
  • ludibrious — (obsolete) sportive; wanton.
  • lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
  • lumbricoid — resembling an earthworm.
  • mesolimbic — (anatomy) Relating to the middle part of the limbic system.
  • metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
  • metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • metabolite — a product of metabolic action.
  • metabolize — (of a body or organ) process (a substance) by metabolism.
  • microblade — bladelet.
  • middlebrow — a person of conventional tastes and interests in matters of culture; a moderately cultivated person.
  • milliprobe — an instrument that analyses very small quantities of material
  • mills bomb — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
  • mindblower — a hallucinogenic drug.
  • mirrorball — Alternative spelling of mirror ball.
  • mobile bay — a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, in SW Alabama: Civil War naval battle 1864. 36 miles (58 km) long; 8–18 miles (13–29 km) wide.
  • mobile web — wireless Internet access from a smartphone or other mobile device (usually preceded by the ; often used attributively): to create apps for the mobile Web; the mobile Web version of our website.
  • mobilising — Present participle of mobilise.
  • mobilizing — Present participle of mobilize.
  • modifiable — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
  • molybdosis — a form of poisoning caused by lead
  • moon-blind — (of horses) afflicted with moon blindness; moon-eyed.
  • morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
  • morbillous — of, relating to, or resembling measles
  • moribundly — In a moribund way.
  • movability — capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.
  • multilobar — of or relating to a lobe, as of the lungs.
  • multilobed — having many lobes
  • myoblastic — of or relating to a myoblast or myoblasts
  • myofibrils — Plural form of myofibril.
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