13-letter words containing i, n, b
- least bittern — any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
- leghemoglobin — a hemoglobinlike red pigment in the root nodules of leguminous plants, as soybean, that is essential for nitrogen fixation.
- leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- liberalminded — Having a liberal opinion or stance.
- liberationism — the principles of liberationists
- liberationist — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
- lightning bug — firefly.
- line breeding — a form of inbreeding directed toward keeping the offspring closely related to a superior ancestor.
- lingual brace — a specialized dental brace that fits behind the teeth so that it is not visible when the wearer speaks or smiles.
- listenability — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
- 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.
- 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.
- lubber's line — a vertical line on the forward inner side of the bowl of a fixed compass, used as a reference mark indicating the heading of a vessel.
- lunar orbiter — one of a series of space probes that orbited and photographed the moon in 1966 and 1967.
- lunar rainbow — moonbow.
- luxembourgian — of or relating to Luxembourg, its people, or their language.
- machinability — The condition of being machinable.
- 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.
- malabsorbtion — Misspelling of malabsorption.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- 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.
- marching band — musical group that parades
- mariage blanc — unconsummated marriage
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- mean business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- medicine ball — a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- 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.
- midnight blue — Something that is midnight blue is a very dark blue colour, almost black.
- military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
- mind-boggling — intellectually overwhelming: a mind-boggling puzzle.
- mindblindness — The inability to deduce or make educated guesses about another person's mental state.
- mineralizable — Capable of being mineralized.
- minisubmarine — A small submarine.
- miserableness — The property of being miserable.