22-letter words containing l, o, s
- a bull in a china shop — You say that someone is like a bull in a china shop when they are very clumsy.
- a lump in one's throat — a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion
- a nail in one's coffin — an experience or event that tends to shorten life or hasten the end of something
- absolute configuration — the spatial arrangement of atoms or groups in a chemical compound about an asymmetric atom
- agro-industrialization — to industrialize the agriculture of: to agro-industrialize a developing nation.
- alarums and excursions — a stage direction, esp. in Elizabethan drama, for a scene depicting a battle
- ali muhammad of shiraz — (the Bab; Ali Muhammad of Shiraz) 1819–50, a Persian religious leader: founder of Bābī.
- alternative hypothesis — the hypothesis that given data do not conform with a given null hypothesis: the null hypothesis is accepted only if its probability exceeds a predetermined significance level
- american bible society — a society founded in New York City in 1816 to bring about worldwide dissemination of the Bible.
- an ace up one's sleeve — a hidden and powerful advantage
- anankastic personality — a personality syndrome characterized by obsessional or compulsive traits.
- anatolian shepherd dog — a large powerfully-built dog of a breed with a large head and a short dense cream or fawn coat, originally used for guarding sheep
- androcles and the lion — a comedy (1913) by G. B. Shaw.
- angle-closure glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- animal rights movement — a group of people who campaign for the rights of animals to be protected from exploitation and abuse by humans
- ankylosing spondylitis — inflammation of the spine causing two or more vertebrae to become fused
- antisocial personality — a personality disorder, beginning early in life, characterized by chronic and continuous antisocial behavior in which the rights of others are violated, as by lying, stealing, or aggressive sexual behavior.
- apple of someone's eye — a person or thing that someone cherishes
- appointment television — television programmes that people set aside time to watch
- approved social worker — (in England) a qualified social worker specially trained in mental-health work, who is approved by his employing local authority to apply for a mentally disordered person to be admitted to hospital and detained there, or to apply for the person to be received into the guardianship of the local authority
- armed response vehicle — (in Britain) a police vehicle carrying armed officers who are trained to respond to incidents involving firearms
- ars longa, vita brevis — art (is) long, life (is) short
- articulatory phonetics — the branch of phonetics concerned with the production of speech sounds
- artificial respiration — Artificial respiration is the forcing of air into the lungs of someone who has stopped breathing, usually by blowing through their mouth or nose, in order to keep them alive and to help them to start breathing again.
- as broad as it is long — amounting to the same thing; without advantage either way
- astronomical telescope — any telescope designed and mounted for use in astronomy. Such telescopes usually form inverted images
- bacterial endocarditis — a bacterial infection of the inner lining of the heart, most often of the heart valves, characterized by fever, enlarged spleen, and heart murmur.
- badlands national park — a national park in SW South Dakota: rock formations and animal fossils. 380 sq. mi. (985 sq. km).
- balance sheet equation — A balance sheet equation is a basic accounting equation that states that assets equal liabilities plus equity.
- baldassare castiglione — Baldassare [bahl-dahs-sah-re] /ˌbɑl dɑsˈsɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1478–1529, Italian diplomat and author.
- ballistic galvanometer — a type of galvanometer for measuring surges of current. After deflection the instrument returns slowly to its original reading
- baptismal regeneration — the doctrine that regeneration and sanctification are received in and through baptism.
- bartolome de las casas — Bartolomé de las [bahr-taw-law-me th e lahs] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ ðɛ lɑs/ (Show IPA), Las Casas, Bartolomé de.
- basal body temperature — the lowest temperature the body reaches in the resting state, typically during sleep. It is usually measured on waking
- beat someone to a pulp — If someone is beaten to a pulp or beaten to pulp, they are hit repeatedly until they are very badly injured.
- bell-bottomed trousers — a pair of trousers with legs widening at the bottom
- bereavement counsellor — a person giving advice to bereaved people to help them cope with their grief
- bernoulli distribution — binomial distribution.
- bernoulli's lemniscate — Analytic Geometry. lemniscate.
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- blow one's own trumpet — to boast of one's own skills or good qualities
- bone marrow transplant — the transplantation of bone marrow from donor to recipient
- bone-marrow transplant — Surgery. a technique in which a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn by a syringe from a donor's pelvic bone and injected into a patient whose ability to make new blood cells has been impaired by a disease, as anemia or cancer, or by exposure to radiation.
- borderline personality — Psychiatry. a personality disorder characterized by instability in many areas, as mood, identity, self-image, and behavior, and often manifested by impulsive actions, suicide attempts, inappropriate anger, or depression.
- borel-lebesgue theorem — Heine-Borel theorem.
- bridge of san luis rey — a novel (1927) by Thornton Wilder.
- british library method — (algorithm) Brute force searching. According to legends circulating in the 1970s, in the British Library books are searched for by examining each book sequentially in the first shelf, then the next shelf, continuing until the book is found or the entire library has been searched. The term was referred to in a Dutch coursebook, "Inleiding In De Informatica" (Introduction to Informatics) from a course given by C.H.A. Koster and Th.A. Zoethout. This was based on a course given at the TU Berlin.
- british national party — a far-right political party
- brush-footed butterfly — any of several butterflies of the family Nymphalidae, including the fritillaries, mourning cloaks, anglewings, and commas, characterized by reduced, nonfunctional forelegs.
- by all manner of means — certainly; of course
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