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14-letter words containing b, o, i, s, e

  • oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
  • palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
  • paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • 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.
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • 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.
  • possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
  • 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
  • raise eyebrows — cause surprise
  • 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.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • 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.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • 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.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • san bernardino — a city in S California.
  • self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
  • self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
  • semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • serum globulin — the blood serum component consisting of proteins with a larger molecular weight than serum albumin
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • shower cubicle — a shower enclosure
  • silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
  • simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
  • single bedroom — a bedroom that is intended to accommodate a single bed and occupancy of one person
  • skilled labour — labour or work that demands skill and which you usually have to be trained for, or the workers that provide this labour
  • skin and bones — a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.
  • slide trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
  • snow blindness — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • sobersidedness — the state or quality of being solemn or sobersided
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