14-letter words containing b, e, y, o
- microcelebrity — a celebrity whose fame is relatively narrow in scope and likely to be transient
- mobile library — travelling book-lending facility
- money-grubbing — a person who is aggressively engaged in or preoccupied with making or saving money.
- morbid obesity — a state of obesity in which the body mass index is between 40 and 49.9 kg/m2
- morbidity rate — a measure of the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- nonobjectivity — Lack of objectivity.
- norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
- not bat an eye — to blink; wink; flutter.
- not sb's style — If you say that something is not someone 's style, you mean that it is not the way in which they usually do things, or it is different from the sort of thing they usually like.
- obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- omega-c baryon — a neutral baryon having a mass 5292 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 6.4 X 10 -14 seconds.
- on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
- oxyhaemoglobin — the bright red product formed when oxygen from the lungs combines with haemoglobin in the blood
- payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
- peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- penalty double — business double.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protopresbyter — a title given to distinguished priests.
- queen's bounty — king's bounty.
- raise eyebrows — cause surprise
- record library — a collection of records belonging to an individual or an organization, for people to borrow usually without payment
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- red chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
- relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
- roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
- scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
- sea gooseberry — a comb jelly, especially of the genus Pleurobrachia.
- 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.
- sherry cobbler — a cobbler drink made with sherry, sliced fruits, and ice.
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
- somoza debayle — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
- subcutaneously — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples