15-letter words containing b, o, g, s
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
- robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
- rough bluegrass — a grass, Poa trivialis, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, where it is used in mixtures for lawns and pasturage.
- sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- scolding bridle — branks.
- sebaceous gland — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
- social climbing — advancement of one's social status
- sociobiological — of or relating to sociobiology
- soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- 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
- starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
- storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
- subject catalog — a catalog having entries listed by subject only.
- suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
- sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.