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16-letter words containing a, b, o, r, i

  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • libation-bearers — Choëphori.
  • liberal democrat — In Britain, a Liberal Democrat is a member of the Liberal Democrat Party.
  • liberal unionist — a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • little brown bat — any of several small to medium-sized common bats of the genera Myotis and Eptesicus, found worldwide in caves, trees, and buildings, including M. lucifugus (little brown bat) and E. fuscus (big brown bat) a widespread North American species.
  • lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
  • magnolia warbler — a black and yellow wood warbler, Dendroica magnolia, of North America.
  • man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
  • marine barometer — a barometer for use on shipboard, especially one mounted on gimbals so as to minimize the effects of the motion of the vessel.
  • marine biologist — scientist who studies sea life
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • megakaryoblastic — (cytology) Of or pertaining to a megakaryoblast.
  • modacrylic fiber — any of various synthetic copolymer textile fibers, as Dynel, containing less than 85 percent but more than 35 percent of acrylonitrile.
  • morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
  • mountain climber — someone who climbs or walks up mountains
  • 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.
  • nibble mode dram — (storage)   A standard DRAM where four successive bits can be clocked out of the single data line by successive pulses on the CAS\ line while RAS\ is active. A column address is only required for the first bit. This mode is now unfashionable but can be found on some older 64 kilobit and 256 kilobit chips.
  • nitrogen balance — the difference between the amount of nitrogen taken in and the amount excreted or lost: used to evaluate nutritional balance.
  • nitrous bacteria — bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites in the soil
  • non-attributable — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
  • non-bureaucratic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a bureaucrat or a bureaucracy; arbitrary and routine.
  • non-extraditable — capable of being extradited; subject to extradition: an extraditable person.
  • non-reconcilable — capable of being reconciled.
  • nonbiodegradable — Not biodegradable.
  • nontransmissible — Not transmissible.
  • nontransmittable — Not transmittable.
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
  • oblique triangle — any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).
  • observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
  • observation post — a forward position, often on high ground, from which enemy activity can be observed and, particularly, from which artillery or mortar fire can be directed.
  • observation ward — a ward in a hospital where patients are monitored
  • observationalist — One who relies on empirical observations.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • on a trial basis — for the purpose of assessment
  • on the breadline — impoverished; living at subsistence level
  • one-armed bandit — slot machine (def 1).
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • 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)
  • organized labour — labour carried out by workers in trade unions, or the workers themselves
  • outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • overurbanization — the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: Urbanization has led to more air pollution and increasing childhood asthma.
  • oxidation number — the state of an element or ion in a compound with regard to the electrons gained or lost by the element or ion in the reaction that formed the compound, expressed as a positive or negative number indicating the ionic charge of the element or ion.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • 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.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
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