15-letter words containing b, o, y, a
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- say one's beads — to pray with a rosary
- soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
- storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
- strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
- substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- unobjectionably — without objection
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).