15-letter words containing b, e, f, s, t
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- infeasible path — dead code
- job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- out of business — If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.
- post office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
- refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
- sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
- see the back of — to be rid of
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- self-betterment — the act or process of bettering; improvement.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
- self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
- self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
- selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- short of breath — If you are short of breath, you find it difficult to breathe properly, for example because you are ill. You can also say that someone suffers from shortness of breath.
- six of the best — six strokes with a cane on the buttocks or hand
- snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
- social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
- soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
- soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
- tariff barriers — a barrier to trade between certain countries or geographical areas which takes the form of abnormally high taxes levied by a government on imports or occasionally exports for purposes of protection, support of the balance of payments, or the raising of revenue
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- tibetan mastiff — a heavy well-built dog of a Tibetan breed with a long thick coat and a bushy tail carried curled over its back, often used as a guard dog
- to sb's defence — If you come to someone's defence, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
- to sb's defense — If you come to someone's defense, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow