13-letter words containing b, o, i, s, e
- shoeshine boy — a man or boy who cleans shoes
- show business — the entertainment industry, as theater, motion pictures, television, radio, carnival, and circus.
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- skin and bone — You can say someone is just skin and bone when you do not approve of the fact that they are very thin.
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
- sonic barrier — sound barrier.
- sound barrier — Also called sonic barrier, transonic barrier. (not in technical use) a hypothetical barrier to flight beyond the speed of sound, so postulated because aircraft undergo an abruptly increasing drag force induced by compression of the surrounding air when traveling near the speed of sound.
- space biology — exobiology.
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling
- spelling-book — a person who spells words.
- sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- splenial bone — a small bone in the lower jaw of some animals, such as reptiles and birds
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
- step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- sub-questions — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- sub-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcollection — the act of collecting.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subconcession — the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument: He made no concession to caution.
- subconscience — an inhibiting sense of what is prudent: I'd eat another piece of pie but my conscience would bother me.
- subcoriaceous — almost leathery
- subdelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
- subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
- subgeneration — a generation within another generation
- sublime porte — official name of Porte.
- subordinative — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- the big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- the big smoke — a large city, esp London
- thrombokinase — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- undiagnosable — unable to be diagnosed
- unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.