17-letter words containing b, o, s, m, a, n
- on someone's back — criticizing or pestering someone
- otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
- performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
- plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
- self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
- steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
- sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
- symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
- synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
- take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
- to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
- uncle tom's cabin — an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- uncomfortableness — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum