13-letter words containing s, n, o, b, l
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- concelebrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of concelebrate.
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- confiscatable — confiscable
- console table — a table with one or more curved legs of bracket-like construction, designed to stand against a wall
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- constrainable — able to be constrained
- constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- controllables — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- cost a bundle — If you say that something costs a bundle, or costs someone a bundle, you are emphasizing that it is expensive.
- counterblasts — Plural form of counterblast.
- country blues — acoustic folk blues with a guitar accompaniment
- danseur noble — a male dancer suited for certain heroic, or noble, roles by virtue of his exceptional grace, technique, and strength
- deliberations — formal discussion and debate, as of a committee, jury, etc
- desobligeante — a type of carriage seating only one person
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.
- dishonourable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- dishonourably — (British) alternative spelling of dishonorably.
- disobediently — In a disobedient manner.
- disobligation — the state of being without obligation
- disobligement — disobligation
- disobligingly — So as to disoblige.
- disponibility — Availability.
- division bell — a bell rung in a parliament to signal a division
- double vision — diplopia.
- doubtlessness — The property of being doubtless.
- elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- enjoyableness — The quality or state of being enjoyable.
- fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- glass-blowing — 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.
- globalisation — internationalisation
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honorableness — The property of being honorable.
- housebuilding — The trade or activity of building houses.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- immovableness — The quality of being immovable.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- inbounds line — one of two broken lines, parallel to the sidelines and running the length of the field, to which the ball is brought when it goes beyond the sidelines.