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11-letter words containing l, o, b, t

  • stoop labor — the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.
  • storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
  • strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
  • sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
  • sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • sublittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of the ocean bottom between the littoral and bathyal zones, from the low water line to the edge of the continental shelf, or to a depth of approximately 660 feet (200 meters).
  • subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
  • subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • subrational — less than or almost rational.
  • subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
  • supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • symbolistic — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
  • szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
  • table board — daily meals provided for pay.
  • table money — an allowance for official entertaining of visitors, etc, esp in the army
  • tabletopped — having a table top
  • taurobolium — the sacrifice of a bull, followed by the baptism of neophytes in the blood, as practiced in the ancient rites of Mithras or Cybele.
  • tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
  • the gorbals — a district of Glasgow, formerly known for its slums
  • the jobless — those who are unemployed
  • the lebanon — a republic in W Asia, on the Mediterranean: an important centre of the Phoenician civilization in the third millennium bc; part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 until 1919; gained independence in 1941 (effective by 1945). Official language: Arabic; French and English are also widely spoken. Religion: Muslim and Christian. Currency: Lebanese pound. Capital: Beirut. Pop: 4 131 583 (2013 est). Area: 10 400 sq km (4015 sq miles)
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • tibiofibula — the bone of a frog's lower leg
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
  • toddy table — a small stand of the 18th century, used for holding drinks.
  • toggle bolt — an anchor bolt having two hinged wings, ordinarily held open by a spring, for engaging the rough sides of a hole drilled in masonry or the inner surface of a hollow wall.
  • toghril beg — ?990–1063 ad, Sultan of Turkey (1055–63), who founded the Seljuq dynasty and conquered Baghdad (1055)
  • toilet bowl — the ceramic bowl of a toilet.
  • tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
  • toll bridge — a bridge at which a toll is charged.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • top billing — the first or most prominent position in a list of actors or entertainers, as on a marquee or screen.
  • topless bar — a bar in which barmaids or waitresses work naked from the waist up
  • torsibility — resistance to torsion.
  • tourbillion — a whirlwind or something resembling a whirlwind.
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • trailbaston — a judging commission first created by Edward I of England which punished crimes and trespass
  • travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
  • treasonable — of the nature of treason.
  • tribologist — a student of, or expert in, tribology
  • tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
  • triple bond — a chemical linkage consisting of three covalent bonds between two atoms of a molecule, represented in chemical formulas by three lines or six dots, as CH≡CH or CH⋮⋮CH.
  • trobar clus — a complex and obscure style of writing adopted by some 12th-century Provençal poets.
  • troglobiont — any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.
  • trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
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