13-letter words containing b, o, s, c, a
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- sacred bamboo — nandina.
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- second banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- sonic barrier — sound barrier.
- space biology — exobiology.
- 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
- stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- suballocation — an allocation made from a previous allocation
- subcategorize — to split into subcategories
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
- subcoriaceous — almost leathery
- subindication — the act or process of subindicating
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
- syllabication — to syllabify.
- symbiotically — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- tautosyllabic — occurring within the same syllable: The (s) and (t) are tautosyllabic in the word disturb, but not in distaste.
- thomas becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
- thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
- triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
- uncontestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.