16-letter words containing b, o, n, e, t, p
- oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
- pension benefits — the benefits that are paid to a person in accordance with his pension scheme
- personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- police constable — police officer
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- pourriture noble — noble rot.
- pre-subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- presentation box — a specially designed and attractive box to hold a product, and make it look more impressive
- projection booth — a soundproof compartment in a theater where a motion-picture projector is housed and from which the picture is projected on the screen.
- prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
- publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
- subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- telephone number — digits dialled to reach sb by phone
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
- vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty