10-letter words containing o, b, s, l
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- idioblasts — Plural form of idioblast.
- imbroglios — Plural form of imbroglio.
- immobilise — to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.
- immobilism — Deep-seated resistance to political change.
- immovables — Plural form of immovable.
- impossible — not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- impossibly — not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- inpossible — Obsolete spelling of impossible.
- insociable — unsociable.
- insociably — in an insociable manner
- insolvable — incapable of being solved or explained; insoluble.
- isabnormal — a line on a map or chart connecting points having an equal deviation from the normal value of some meteorological quantity, as temperature.
- isoborneol — (organic compound) The exo-isomer of borneol.
- isolatable — isolable.
- jobholders — Plural form of jobholder.
- joe bloggs — an average or typical man
- jollyboats — Plural form of jollyboat.
- katabolism — Alternative form of catabolism.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- labionasal — articulated with the lips and given resonance in the nasal cavity, as m.
- labourious — Lb nonstandard Alternative form of from=UK.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- lay sb low — If a disease or illness lays you low, it makes you weak or ill.
- leuco base — a noncolored or slightly colored compound that is produced by reducing a dye and is readily oxidized to regenerate the dye.
- leucoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- leukoblast — an immature leukocyte.
- lewis bolt — an anchor bolt having a conical base around which concrete or lead is poured to hold it.
- liberators — a four-engined heavy bomber widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. Symbol: B-24.
- libidinous — full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious.
- lions book — (publication) "Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6", by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained the entire source listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the University of New South Wales beginning 1976-77, and were, for years after, the *only* detailed kernel documentation available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions book was never formally published and was only supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees (it is still possible to get a Bell Labs reprint of the book by sending a copy of a V6 source licence to the right person at Bellcore, but *real* insiders have the UNSW edition). In spite of this, it soon spread by samizdat to a good many of the early Unix hackers. In 1996 it was reprinted as a "classic":
- lions club — any of the local clubs that form the International Association of Lions Clubs, formed in the US in 1917 to foster local and international good relations and service to the community
- lobotomies — Plural form of lobotomy.
- lobotomise — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobotomist — to perform a lobotomy on.
- lobstering — the act, process, or business of capturing lobsters.
- lobsterman — a person who traps lobsters.
- lobstermen — Plural form of lobsterman.
- lombrosian — of or relating to the doctrine propounded by the Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso that criminals are a product of hereditary and atavistic factors and can be classified as a definite abnormal type
- longbeards — Plural form of longbeard.
- looseboxes — Plural form of loosebox.
- louisbourg — a fortress in Canada, in Nova Scotia on SE Cape Breton Island: founded in 1713 by the French and strongly fortified (1720–40); captured by the British (1758) and demolished; reconstructed as a historic site
- love beads — a necklace of small, often handmade beads, worn as a symbol of peace and goodwill, especially in the 1960s.
- lubricious — arousing or expressive of sexual desire; lustful; lecherous.
- ludibrious — (obsolete) sportive; wanton.