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13-letter words containing o, b, s, l, e, t

  • liberty horse — (in a circus) a riderless horse that performs movements to verbal commands
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • lonsdale belt — (in Britain) a belt conferred as a trophy on professional boxing champions, in various weight categories: if a champion wins it three times it becomes his personal property
  • losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
  • lubber's knot — an improperly made reef or square knot, likely to slip loose.
  • megaloblastic — an abnormally large, immature, and dysfunctional red blood cell found in the blood of persons with pernicious anemia or certain other disorders.
  • memorabiliast — a person who collects mementos or souvenirs, as postcards or playbills.
  • mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
  • mobile studio — a van, truck, etc equipped as a recording, broadcasting etc studio
  • mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
  • mosbolletjies — Plural form of mosbolletjie.
  • motorbicycles — Plural form of motorbicycle.
  • movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
  • nansen bottle — a waterproof container for taking samples of ocean water, several usually being lowered open on a line and each being closed at the desired depth by the action of a falling weight.
  • neoliberalist — A supporter of neoliberalism.
  • neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nondigestible — Not digestible.
  • object clause — the clause that acts as the object of a verb
  • object lesson — a practical or concrete illustration of a principle.
  • object pascal — (language)   An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
  • observability — capable of being or liable to be observed; noticeable; visible; discernible: an observable change in attitude.
  • observational — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obsolescently — In an obsolescent manner.
  • obstacle race — a foot race in which the contestants are prevented in a specific way from covering the full course at top speed, as by having hurdles to jump, sacks enclosing the legs, or potatoes to pick up.
  • obstetrically — (medicine) In terms of obstetrics.
  • obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
  • octosyllables — Plural form of octosyllable.
  • ostensibility — The quality of being ostensible.
  • osteoblastoma — (oncology) an uncommon osteoid tissue-forming primary neoplasm of the bone.
  • overstability — the state of being excessively stable
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
  • pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
  • possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
  • process table — (operating system, process)   A table containing all of the information that must be saved when the CPU switches from running one process to another in a multitasking system. The information in the process table allows the suspended process to be restarted at a later time as if it had never been stopped. Every process has an entry in the table. These entries are known as process control blocks and contain the following information: process state - information needed so that the process can be loaded into memory and run, such as the program counter, the stack pointer, and the values of registers. memory state - details of the memory allocation such as pointers to the various memory areas used by the program resource state - information regarding the status of files being used by the process such as user ID. Accounting and scheduling information. An example of a UNIX process table is shown below. SLOT ST PID PGRP UID PRI CPU EVENT NAME FLAGS 0 s 0 0 0 95 0 runout sched load sys 1 s 1 0 0 66 1 u init load 2 s 2 0 0 95 0 10bbdc vhand load sys SLOT is the entry number of the process. ST shows whether the process is paused or sleeping (s), ready to run (r), or running on a CPU (o). PID is the process ID. PGRP is the process Group. UID is the user ID. PRI is the priority of the process from 127 (highest) to 0 (lowest). EVENT is the event on which a process is paused or sleeping. NAME is the name of the process. FLAGS are the process flags. A process that has died but still has an entry in the process table is called a zombie process.
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • resublimation — 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.
  • seasonability — fact of being seasonable
  • second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • self-begotten — a past participle of beget.
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