11-letter words containing r, a, b, o
- jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
- jacob's rod — asphodel (sense 1)
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- job's-tears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
- journal box — a box or housing for a journal and its bearing.
- karaoke bar — a bar that holds karaoke sessions
- katabothron — an underground channel created by water erosion
- keyboarders — Plural form of keyboarder.
- keyboarding — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keyboardist — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- killer boat — a boat used for hunting whales and towing them to a factory ship.
- kiteboarder — A person who participates in kiteboarding.
- kodiak bear — a large, brown bear, Ursus (arctos) middendorffi, inhabiting coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia, that grows to a length of 9 feet (2.7 meters).
- kookaburras — Plural form of kookaburra.
- labor force — work force.
- labor pains — childbirth: contractions
- labor party — one of the chief political parties of Australia, generally supporting the interests of organized labour
- labor union — an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union.
- laboriously — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- labradoodle — a type of dog that is a cross between a Labrador retriever and a poodle
- labradorean — of or relating to Labrador.
- labradorite — a feldspar mineral of the plagioclase group, often characterized by a brilliant change of colors, with blue and green most common.
- langobardic — Lombard1 (def 4).
- lay brother — a man who has taken religious vows and habit but is employed by his order chiefly in manual labor.
- layer board — lear board.
- leaderboard — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
- librational — Of or pertaining to libration.
- lobsterback — redcoat.
- local derby — a football match between two teams from the same area
- lochaber ax — a Scottish battle-ax of the 16th century, having a tall, cleaverlike blade with a hook at its upper end.
- long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
- long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
- lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
- lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
- lubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucubration — laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
- lucubratory — Composed by candlelight, or at night.
- lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
- lump labour — work done by self-employed workers in the building trade
- lunar orbit — path or movement of the moon around the earth
- macrobiosis — long life.
- macrobiotic — of or relating to macrobiotics or its dietary practices.
- mantelboard — mantel.
- māori bread — bread made with fermented potato yeast
- maraboutism — Support for marabouts (Muslim holy men or mystics).
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these