15-letter words containing b, r, n
- noncontrollable — not able to be controlled
- nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
- nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
- nordic combined — a competition for Nordic skiers comprising ski jumping and cross-country skiing events, the winner having the highest combined score.
- north bay shore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- not a dickybird — not a word; nothing
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- not before time — If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner.
- notour bankrupt — a bankrupt who has failed to discharge his or her debts within the days of grace allowed by the court
- nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
- number cruncher — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- number one wood — driver (def 4).
- number-cruncher — a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program.
- obedience trial — a competitive event at which a dog can progress toward a degree in obedience by demonstrating its ability to follow a prescribed series of commands.
- obituary column — the division of a publication reserved for obituaries
- object-oriented — pertaining to or denoting a system, programming language, etc., that supports the use of objects, as an entire image, a routine, or a data structure.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- obstructionists — Plural form of obstructionist.
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- obtuse triangle — a triangle with one obtuse angle.
- octanitrocubane — (organic compound) A high explosive derived from cubane.
- old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- old man's beard — fringe tree.
- old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- old-man's-beard — fringe tree.
- oldenbarneveldt — Johan van. 1547–1619, Dutch statesman, regarded as a founder of Dutch independence; the leading figure (from 1586) in the United Provinces of the Netherlands: executed by Maurice of Nassau
- on the port bow — within 45 degrees to the port of straight ahead
- one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
- operating table — table on which surgery is performed
- 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.
- order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- 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).
- organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
- perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- peroxide blonde — You can refer to a woman whose hair has been artificially been made lighter in colour as a peroxide blonde, especially when you want to show that you disapprove of this, or that you think her hair looks unnatural or unattractive.
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- 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.
- plasma membrane — cell membrane.
- plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
- pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.