14-letter words containing b, e, n, s, o
- obligatoriness — The quality or state of being obligatory.
- obsequiousness — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
- omnibus volume — a collection of works by one author or several works on a similar topic, reprinted in one volume
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- orange blossom — the white flower of an orange tree, especially of the genus Citrus, much used in wreaths, bridal bouquets, etc.: the state flower of Florida.
- orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- overburdensome — excessively burdensome.
- pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- poppaea sabina — died a.d. 65? second wife of the Roman emperor Nero.
- porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- queen's bounty — king's bounty.
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- rabble-rousing — of, relating to, or characteristic of a rabble-rouser.
- rainbow series — (publication) Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover colour. The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see Orange Book, crayola books); the term has also been commonly applied to the PostScript reference set (see Red Book, Green Book, Blue Book, White Book). Which books are meant by ""the" rainbow series" unqualified is thus dependent on one's local technical culture.
- rainbow wrasse — a brightly coloured Mediterranean fish ( Coris julis) of the Labridae family
- random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
- reasonableness — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- rebelliousness — defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
- rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
- redistribution — a distribution performed again or anew.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- ribonucleoside — a ribonucleotide precursor that contains ribose and a purine or pyrimidine base.
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- san bernardino — a city in S California.
- sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
- scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
- second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
- self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
- semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).