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17-letter words containing b, o, s, t

  • saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
  • secondary battery — storage battery.
  • secondary boycott — a boycott by union members against their employer in order to induce the employer to bring pressure on another company involved in a labor dispute with the union.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • shake one's booty — to dance
  • show sb the ropes — If you show someone the ropes, you show them how to do a particular job or task.
  • sinbad the sailor — a merchant in The Arabian Nights who makes seven adventurous voyages
  • slowly but surely — If you say that something is happening slowly but surely, you mean that it is happening gradually but it is definitely happening.
  • smokeless tobacco — snuff1 (def 9).
  • sodium bichromate — a red or orange crystalline, water-soluble solid, Na 2 Cr 2 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, used as an oxidizing agent in the manufacture of dyes and inks, as a corrosion inhibitor, a mordant, a laboratory reagent, in the tanning of leather, and in electroplating.
  • sodium pyroborate — borax1 .
  • sorolla y bastida — Joaquín [hwah-keen] /ʰwɑˈkin/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Spanish painter.
  • southeast by east — a point on the compass 11°15′ east of southeast. Abbreviation: SEbE.
  • southwest by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of southwest. Abbreviation: SWbW.
  • special constable — a person recruited for temporary or occasional police duties, esp in time of emergency
  • spiritual bouquet — the spiritual presentation of a good work to another person.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • star of bethlehem — the star that is supposed to have appeared above Bethlehem at the birth of Christ
  • star-of-bethlehem — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ornithogalum, of the lily family, having grasslike leaves and clusters of white flowers.
  • state the obvious — point out sth already evident
  • statue of liberty — a large copper statue, on Liberty Island, in New York harbor, depicting a woman holding a burning torch: designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886.
  • steamboat springs — a town in NW Colorado: ski resort.
  • stick to the ribs — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
  • stockbroker tudor — a modern style of architecture popular in affluent suburban areas that is imitative of Tudor architecture
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
  • subject catalogue — a catalogue with entries arranged by subject in a classified sequence
  • subordinated debt — a debt that an unsecured creditor can only claim, in the event of a liquidation, after the claims of secured creditors have been paid
  • subscription rate — the price charged for a subscription
  • subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
  • sunbury-on-thames — a town in SE England, in N Surrey. Pop: 27 415 (2001)
  • surrender to bail — to present oneself at court at the appointed time after having been on bail
  • synchronous orbit — an orbit in which the orbital period of a satellite is identical to the spin period of the central body
  • synthetic biology — the application of computer science techniques to create artificial biological systems
  • take some beating — to be difficult to improve upon
  • take sth by storm — If someone or something takes a place by storm, they are extremely successful.
  • take to one's bed — to remain in bed, esp because of illness
  • take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • teething troubles — Teething troubles are the same as teething problems.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • terrestrial globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
  • terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the barbary coast — a historic name for the Mediterranean coast of North Africa: a centre of piracy against European shipping from the 16th to the 19th centuries
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the joke is on sb — If you say that the joke is on a particular person, you mean that they have been made to look very foolish by something.
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
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