14-letter words containing l, o, b, i, e
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- lake maracaibo — a lake in NW Venezuela, linked with the Gulf of Venezuela by a dredged channel: centre of the Venezuelan and South American oil industry. Area: about 13 000 sq km (500 sq miles)
- lake winnebago — a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
- landing beacon — a radio transmitter that emits a landing beam
- liberalisation — (British) alternative spelling of liberalization.
- liberalization — (US) The process or act of making more liberal.
- liberty bodice — a sleeveless vest-like undergarment made from thick cotton and covering the upper part of the body, formerly worn esp by young children
- libidinousness — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- linen cupboard — airing cupboard
- linoleum block — a piece of thick, soft, cork linoleum often mounted on a block of wood, incised or carved in relief with a design, pattern, or pictorial motif, and used in making prints.
- little bighorn — a river flowing N from N Wyoming to S Montana into the Bighorn River: General Custer and troops defeated near its juncture by Indians 1876. 80 miles (130 km) long.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- local variable — (programming) A variable with lexical scope, i.e. one which only exists in some particular part of the source code, typically within a block or a function or procedure body. This contrasts with a global variable, which is defined throughout the whole program. Code is easier to understand and modify when the scope of variables is as small as possible because it is easier to see how the variable is set and used. Code containing global variables is harder to modify because its behaviour may depend on and affect other sections of code that refer to that variable.
- logic variable — (programming) A variable in a logic programming language which is initially undefined ("unbound") but may get bound to a value or another logic variable during unification of the containing clause with the current goal. The value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound. For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom "billgates" yielding the new subgoal "computer(billgates, ibmpc)".
- lord baltimore — David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.
- lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- lugubriousness — The property of being lugubrious.
- malleable iron — malleable cast iron.
- mandibulectomy — (surgery) excision of the mandible.
- manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
- marine biology — science of sea life
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- memorabilities — Plural form of memorability.
- metabolic heat — animal heat.
- metabolic rate — the rate at which living organisms expend energy or convert energy into food
- methaemoglobin — a brownish compound of oxygen and hemoglobin, formed in the blood, as by the use of certain drugs.
- methyl bromide — a colorless, poisonous gas, CH 3 Br, used chiefly as a solvent, refrigerant, and fumigant and in organic synthesis.
- microcelebrity — a celebrity whose fame is relatively narrow in scope and likely to be transient
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- middlesborough — a city in SE Kentucky.
- mistletoe bird — a small Australian flower-pecker, Dicaeum hirundinaceum, that feeds on mistletoe berries
- mobile canteen — a truck or lorry with kitchen facilities that can be used on site, such as on a film set, construction site, as a soup kitchen, etc
- mobile command — the Canadian army and other land forces
- mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
- moon blindness — a disease of horses in which the eyes suffer from recurring attacks of inflammation, eventually resulting in opacity and blindness.
- mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
- neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
- neurobiologist — the branch of biology that is concerned with the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- non-accessible — easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
- non-actionable — furnishing ground for a lawsuit.
- non-admissible — that may be allowed or conceded; allowable: an admissible plan.
- non-applicable — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
- non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- non-cognizable — capable of being perceived or known.
- non-compatible — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- non-corrodible — to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
- non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- non-deliberate — carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional: a deliberate lie.