15-letter words containing o, b, n
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
- intra-abdominal — being within the abdomen.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- irreconcileable — Alternative spelling of irreconcilable.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- irritable colon — any combination of common disturbances of the bowel, as diarrhea or constipation, occurring with abdominal pain, sometimes accompanied by psychological stress. Abbreviation: IBS.
- isolation booth — a soundproof booth located within a television studio, used to prevent the occupant, usually a contestant in a game show, from hearing certain parts of the show.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- jack-in-the-box — a toy consisting of a box from which an enclosed figure springs up when the lid is opened.
- jacob ben asher — c1269–c1340, Hebrew commentator on the Bible and codifier of Jewish law.
- job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
- job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
- job opportunity — an opportunity of employment
- job requirement — a quality or qualification that you must have in order to be suitable for a certain job
- jobbing printer — a person who prints mainly commercial and display work rather than books or newspapers
- john barleycorn — a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.
- journal bearing — a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
- keep tabs on sb — If someone keeps tabs on you, they make sure that they always know where you are and what you are doing, often in order to control you.
- knebworth house — a Tudor mansion in Knebworth in Hertfordshire: home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton; decorated (1843) in the Gothic style
- knickerbockered — wearing knickers.
- knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
- knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
- labor relations — worker-employer relationship
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
- lambda-b baryon — a protonlike baryon containing a b quark; a neutral baryon with a mass 11,000 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.1 X 10 -12 seconds.
- lambda-c baryon — a positively charged baryon with a mean lifetime of approximately 2.1 X 10 -13 seconds.
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
- liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
- library edition — an edition of a book prepared for library use, especially with a library binding.
- lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
- lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
- low bandwidth x — (networking) (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
- lubricating oil — an oily substance that is used to cover or treat machinery so as to lessen friction
- luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
- magnetic bottle — Physics. a magnetic field so shaped that it can confine a plasma: used in a proposed design for fusion reactors.
- maldistribution — bad or unsatisfactory distribution, as of wealth, among a population or members of a group.
- malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
- man-o'-war bird — frigate bird.
- man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- manubial column — a triumphal column decorated with spoils of the enemy.
- manukau harbour — an inlet of the Tasman Sea near Auckland in New Zealand on NW North Island
- māori battalion — the Māori unit of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II
- maxilloturbinal — (anatomy) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
- medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine