15-letter words containing b, o, s
- old man's beard — fringe tree.
- old-established — established for a long time
- old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
- omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
- one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
- opposite number — counterpart; equivalent: New members with an interest in folk art will find their opposite numbers in the association's directory.
- opprobriousness — The state or condition of being opprobrious.
- ordinal numbers — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
- out of business — If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.
- outer barrister — a barrister belonging to the outer bar.
- outside the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- overthrust belt — an elongate area in which thick rock layers have been pushed over one another by compressional forces within the earth's crust.
- pack one's bags — If you pack your bags, you leave a place where you have been staying or living.
- 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
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
- petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
- phosphor bronze — a bronze, composed of about 80 percent copper, 10 percent tin, 9 percent antimony, and 1 percent phosphorus, having great hardness and resistance to corrosion.
- 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.
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
- post office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- 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.
- prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
- prisoner's base — any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
- pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
- probationership — the position of a probationer
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- put sb to death — If someone is put to death, they are executed.
- put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
- 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.
- qaboos bin said — born 1940, Sultan of Oman from 1970
- quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- quintec-objects — Based on Quintec Prolog (not Quintus). British.
- radio broadcast — sth transmitted via radio signal