12-letter words containing o, b, s, l
- labour costs — the charges incurred when employing labour; the wages, etc, paid to workers, esp those employed to do physical work
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- labouriously — Alternative form of laboriously.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- last but one — next to last
- lay store by — to value or reckon as important
- le corbusier — (Charles Édouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965, Swiss architect in France.
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- libidinosity — lustfulness
- libidinously — In a libidinous manner.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- lobster moth — a large sombre-hued prominent moth, Stauropus fagi, that when at rest resembles dead leaves. The modified thoracic legs of the larva, carried curled over its body, look like a lobster's claw
- lobster roll — lobster salad served on a frankfurter roll or the like.
- lobster tail — the flesh of the tail of any of various crustaceans, esp. the Cape crawfish, prepared as food, often by broiling in the shell
- loganberries — Plural form of loganberry.
- loose-limbed — having supple arms and legs: a loose-limbed athlete.
- lord's table — the, communion table.
- louise bogan — Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
- lubrications — Plural form of lubrication.
- lubriciously — In a lubricious manner.
- lucubrations — Plural form of lucubration.
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
- mantelboards — Plural form of mantelboard.
- melanoblasts — Plural form of melanoblast.
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metabolomics — the study of all the metabolites present in cells, tissues, and organs
- microbubbles — a microscopic, gas-filled bubble, used especially in medicine to image blood flow, dissolve blood clots, etc.
- microfibrils — Plural form of microfibril.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- microtubules — Plural form of microtubule.
- middy blouse — any of various loose blouses with a sailor collar, often extending below the waistline to terminate in a broad band or fold, as worn by sailors, women, or children.
- mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
- molybdenosis — a disease of ruminants, especially cattle, caused by dietary intake of excessive molybdenum with resultant copper deficiency, characterized by persistent diarrhea and, especially around the eyes, a fading of coat pigment.
- monosyllabic — having only one syllable, as the word no.
- monosyllable — a word of one syllable, as yes or no.
- mosbolletjie — (South Africa) Dough leavened with the must of grapes used for making rusks.
- moveableness — The quality of being moveable.
- muscle-bound — having enlarged and inelastic muscles, as from excessive exercise.
- nebulosities — Plural form of nebulosity.
- nebulousness — The characteristic of being nebulous.
- neotribalism — Ideology that humans have evolved to live in a tribal, as opposed to a modern society.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- nielsbohrium — dubnium: symbol, Ns: the name originally proposed by Russian scientists for this element
- nihil obstat — permission to publish a book, granted by an official censor who, upon examining it, has certified that it contains nothing contrary to faith or morals.
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- noble savage — primitive indigenous person
- noctambulism — somnambulism.