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15-letter words containing b, e, r, n

  • nordic combined — a competition for Nordic skiers comprising ski jumping and cross-country skiing events, the winner having the highest combined score.
  • north bay shore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • not before time — If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner.
  • number cruncher — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • number one wood — driver (def 4).
  • number-cruncher — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
  • obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
  • object-oriented — pertaining to or denoting a system, programming language, etc., that supports the use of objects, as an entire image, a routine, or a data structure.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
  • old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
  • old man's beard — fringe tree.
  • old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
  • old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
  • oldenbarneveldt — Johan van. 1547–1619, Dutch statesman, regarded as a founder of Dutch independence; the leading figure (from 1586) in the United Provinces of the Netherlands: executed by Maurice of Nassau
  • on the port bow — within 45 degrees to the port of straight ahead
  • one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
  • operating table — table on which surgery is performed
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
  • order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • peroxide blonde — You can refer to a woman whose hair has been artificially been made lighter in colour as a peroxide blonde, especially when you want to show that you disapprove of this, or that you think her hair looks unnatural or unattractive.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • phosphor bronze — a bronze, composed of about 80 percent copper, 10 percent tin, 9 percent antimony, and 1 percent phosphorus, having great hardness and resistance to corrosion.
  • plasma membrane — cell membrane.
  • plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
  • prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
  • prisoner's base — any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
  • probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
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