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17-letter words containing b, a, s, e, o

  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • secondary rainbow — a faint rainbow formed by light rays that undergo two internal reflections in drops of rain, appearing above the primary rainbow and having its colors in the opposite order.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • shake one's booty — to dance
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • six-speed gearbox — a gearbox containing a system of six gears
  • smokeless tobacco — snuff1 (def 9).
  • sodium bichromate — a red or orange crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 Cr 2 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and inks, as a corrosion inhibitor, a mordant, a laboratory reagent, in the tanning of leather, and in electroplating.
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • southeast by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbE.
  • special constable — a person recruited for temporary or occasional police duties, esp in time of emergency
  • spiritual bouquet — the spiritual presentation of a good work to another person.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
  • star of bethlehem — the star that is supposed to have appeared above Bethlehem at the birth of Christ
  • star-of-bethlehem — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ornithogalum, of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and clusters of white flowers.
  • state the obvious — point out sth already evident
  • statue of liberty — a large copper statue, on Liberty Island, in New York harbor, depicting a woman holding a burning torch: designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886.
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subject catalogue — a catalogue with entries arranged by subject in a classified sequence
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • supervisory board — a board of management of which nonmanagerial workers are members, having supervisory powers over some aspects of management decision-making
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • symbolic assembly — (language)   An early system on the IBM 705.
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
  • take to one's bed — to remain in bed, esp because of illness
  • take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
  • terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the barbary coast — a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • throat sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • to best advantage — If something is shown to good advantage or to best advantage, it is shown in a way that reveals its best features.
  • to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
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