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15-letter words containing o, b, s, l

  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • football season — annual period when soccer is played
  • gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
  • gastric balloon — an inflatable rubber bag placed in the stomach to reduce its capacity as an aid to losing weight
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gibson, william — William Gibson
  • globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
  • immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
  • immunoglobulins — Plural form of immunoglobulin.
  • impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • inconsolability — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • indissolubility — not dissoluble; incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed.
  • indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
  • indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • 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.
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • keyboard skills — ability to input information using a keyboard
  • 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.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • ladies'-tobacco — pussy-toes.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • liberalizations — Plural form of liberalization.
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