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15-letter words containing b, o, r, s, t

  • morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • most honourable — a courtesy title applied to marquesses and members of the Privy Council and the Order of the Bath
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • muslim brothers — an organization founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hasan al-Banna (1906–49), calling for a return to rigid orthodoxy, the overthrow of secular governments, and a restoration of the theocratic state.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
  • non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
  • north bay shore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
  • obstructionists — Plural form of obstructionist.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
  • opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
  • outer barrister — a barrister belonging to the outer bar.
  • overthrust belt — an elongate area in which thick rock layers have been pushed over one another by compressional forces within the earth's crust.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
  • petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
  • petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
  • pink-shirt book — (publication)   "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • radio broadcast — sth transmitted via radio signal
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
  • relational dbms — relational database
  • represent-to-be — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
  • ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
  • roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • rubber solution — a kind of rubber-based adhesive
  • sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
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