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16-letter words containing n, o, b, s, l, e

  • lead by the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
  • leaps and bounds — You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
  • leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
  • libation-bearers — Choëphori.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • line of business — profession, trade: field
  • lobe-finned fish — any fish that has rounded scales and lobed fins, as the coelacanth.
  • long-established — having a long history; old
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
  • neuroborreliosis — A disorder of the central nervous system caused by a spirochete of the genus Borrelia.
  • non-compressible — to press together; force into less space.
  • non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • nondurable goods — goods that remain usable for, or must be replaced within, a relatively short period of time, as food, apparel, or fabrics
  • nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
  • nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
  • observationalist — One who relies on empirical observations.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • one's level best — the best one can do
  • personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
  • police constable — police officer
  • post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
  • prisoner of bill — (humour)   (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
  • proslambanomenos — the lowest note of the scale in ancient Greek music
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
  • publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
  • questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • remember oneself — to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly
  • responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • sandlot baseball — a form of baseball played by children on an area of vacant ground
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • shoot one's bolt — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
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