13-letter words containing o, b, y, l, e
- box jellyfish — any of various highly venomous jellyfishes of the order Cubomedusae, esp Chironex fleckeri, of Australian tropical waters, having a cuboidal body with tentacles hanging from each of the lower corners
- boycott apple — (legal) Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
- broadly based — Something that is broadly based involves many different kinds of things or people.
- brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
- bubble memory — a method of storing high volumes of data by the use of minute pockets of magnetism (bubbles) in a semiconducting material. The bubbles may be caused to migrate past a read head or to a buffer area for storage
- buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
- bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- by yourselves — if you are by yourselves, or all by yourselves, you are alone
- by-your-leave — a request for permission (esp in the phrase without so much as a by-your-leave)
- byte compiler — byte-code compiler
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- carboxymethyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CH2-COOH derived from acetic acid.
- cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
- cobalt yellow — aureolin.
- cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- conveyor belt — A conveyor belt or a conveyor is a continuously-moving strip of rubber or metal which is used in factories for moving objects along so that they can be dealt with as quickly as possible.
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- coventry bell — a perennial garden plant, Campanula trachelium, of Eurasia, having coarsely toothed leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- decarbonylate — to remove the carbonyl group from (an organic compound).
- decarboxylase — an enzyme that catalyses the removal of carbon dioxide from a compound
- decarboxylate — to take away a carboxyl group from (an organic compound) or (of an organic compound) to lose a carboxyl group
- deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
- embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
- embryonically — In an embryonic way.
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- enjoyableness — The quality or state of being enjoyable.
- equilibratory — Relating to the physical sense of balance, or equilibrium.
- erythroblasts — Plural form of erythroblast.
- exportability — The property of being exportable.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
- heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
- hemocytoblast — a primordial cell capable of developing into any type of blood cell.
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
- home assembly — assembly at home of something supplied in pieces
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- hypermobility — An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint.
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.