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15-letter words containing b, a, r, p

  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
  • special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
  • sublapsarianism — infralapsarianism.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
  • trade paperback — a paperback book of a size similar to a typical hard-cover book, intended for sale in bookstores as distinguished from a cheaper and smaller paperback intended for sale on racks at drugstores, newsstands, etc.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
  • unpronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
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