12-letter words containing l, a, b, r
- 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
- number plate — vehicle's registration panel
- numerability — the fact of having the ability to be counted
- obligatorily — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- obliterating — Present participle of obliterate.
- obliteration — the act of obliterating or the state of being obliterated.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- olallieberry — a blackberry that is a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, cultivated in California and Oregon.
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oracle bones — animal bones used for divination
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
- palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
- panel beater — a person who beats out the bodywork of motor vehicles
- parisyllabic — (of a noun or verb, in inflected languages) containing the same number of syllables in all or almost all inflected forms
- parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
- participable — capable of being shared.
- paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
- pearl barley — barley milled into small, round grains, used in cooking, especially in soups.
- 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.
- permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phlebography — venography.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- 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.
- plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
- poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
- 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.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
- prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
- problem area — a place that is prone to a particular problem or danger, such as flooding or road-traffic accidents