16-letter words containing o, b, y, l
- montagu's blenny — a small blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita, found among rocks in shallow water
- mulberry harbour — either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
- national library — a library established and funded by a national government with the designation national, to serve the needs of this government, often to function as a library of record for the nation's publishing output, and in some cases to act as a central agency for library and bibliographic development in the nation.
- non-availability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- observationality — The property of being observational.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- ordinary jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
- port phillip bay — a bay in SE Australia: the harbor of Melbourne. 31 miles (50 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- public schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
- scarborough lily — a plant, Vallota speciosa, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having clusters of funnel-shaped, scarlet flowers.
- showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
- soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
- software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- symbolical books — the books containing the creeds, beliefs, or doctrine of religious groups that have emerged since the Reformation
- thalidomide baby — a baby that has physical abnormalities due to the drug thalidomide being taken by the mother while the baby was still a developing fetus
- the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
- the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
- to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
- to blow your top — If someone blows their top, they become very angry about something.
- triboelectricity — electricity generated by friction.
- two-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of two bodies in space moving solely under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- vegetable oyster — salsify.
- vocabulary entry — (in dictionaries) a word, phrase, abbreviation, symbol, affix, name, etc., listed with its definition or explanation in alphabetical order or listed for identification after the word from which it is derived or to which it is related.
- white globe lily — a bulbous Californian plant, Calochortus albus, of the lily family, having egg-shaped white flowers with a purplish base.
- yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them
- your better half — If you talk about your better half or your other half you mean your wife, your husband, or the person of the opposite sex that you live with.