10-letter words containing abo
- kick about — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- knockabout — Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- laboratory — 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.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- labour day — a holiday in honor of labor, celebrated on May 1 in Britain and some parts of the Commonwealth, but on the first Monday in September in Canada, on the fourth Monday in October in New Zealand, and with varying dates in the different states of Australia.
- labour law — those areas of law which appertain to the relationship between employers and employees and between employers and trade unions
- labourious — Lb nonstandard Alternative form of from=UK.
- laboursome — (obsolete) Hard-working.
- lay aboard — (formerly) to move alongside a warship to board it
- luluabourg — former name of Kananga.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- mess about — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metabolise — Alternative spelling of metabolize.
- metabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- metabolite — a product of metabolic action.
- metabolize — (of a body or organ) process (a substance) by metabolism.
- metabolome — (biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of metabolites found in a biological sample; especially that found in a person's body under normal conditions, and when suffering from a disease.
- move about — fidget, be restless
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- nabokovian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of Vladimir Nabokov: a sly, Nabokovian sense of the absurd.
- nabonassar — died 733? b.c, king of Babylon 747?–733?.
- new labour — a rebranding of the British Labour Party and its policies undertaken by Tony Blair and his supporters in the run-up to the 1997 general election in Great Britain and maintained during the Labour Party's period of government under Blair's premiership. Never an official title, it denotes the more right-wing/social democratic trend in Labour thinking and policy intended to make the party electable after its electoral catastrophes of the 1980s
- nose about — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- overabound — (intransitive) To be too abundant or plentiful.
- overlabour — excessive toil
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paraboloid — a surface that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to at least one coordinate plane are parabolas.
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- pull about — to handle roughly
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rise above — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- rouseabout — an unskilled labourer in a shearing shed
- roustabout — a wharf laborer or deck hand, as on the Mississippi River.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- talk about — expressing disgust or emphasis
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- time about — alternately; turn and turn about
- unlaboured — (of writing or artwork) not showing effort, but natural and flowing in style
- walkabouts — Plural form of walkabout.
- what about — You use what about at the beginning of a question when you make a suggestion, offer, or request.
- whatabouts — what one is doing generally; things that are occupying someone
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whirlabout — a whirling around in a circle.