12-letter words containing s, a, b, l, o
- flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- glabrousness — The quality of being glabrous.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- glioblastoma — A highly invasive glioma in the brain.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- go ballistic — of or relating to ballistics.
- granuloblast — an immature granulocyte.
- haematoblast — any of the undifferentiated cells in the bone marrow that develop into blood cells
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
- heteroblasty — the morphological changes that occur in plants between juvenility and adulthood
- homo habilis — an extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics, dated as being from about 1.5 million to more than 2 million years old and proposed as an early form of Homo leading to modern humans.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hydrolysable — Alternative spelling of hydrolyzable.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- illusionable — Liable to illusion.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- in mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- inconsolable — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- inconsolably — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- inhospitably — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- innominables — trousers
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- insalubrious — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- islamophobia — Alternative capitalization of Islamophobia.
- isobilateral — (esp of a leaf) capable of being divided into symmetrical halves along two different planes
- jettisonable — to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency.
- job analysis — a detailed study of the requirements necessary to complete a job, taking into consideration chiefly the order of operation, material and machinery needed, and the necessary qualifications of workers.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboratories — a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like.
- 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
- leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
- lobeliaceous — belonging to the plant family Lobeliaceae.
- 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