17-letter words containing b, s, m, e, o, n
- non-reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- number seven iron — pitcher2 (def 3).
- old contemptibles — the British expeditionary force to France in 1914
- on someone's back — criticizing or pestering someone
- performance bonus — a monetary bonus paid to staff who have performed well in their job
- precision bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped, as accurately as possible, on a specific, usually small, target.
- self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
- sleeping problems — difficulties in getting to sleep or in staying asleep
- 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
- teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
- telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
- terrorist bombing — the bombing of a place carried out in order to achieve some goal
- theory of numbers — number theory.
- to read sb's mind — If you can read someone's mind, you know what they are thinking without them saying anything.
- triboluminescence — luminescence produced by friction, usually within a crystalline substance.
- 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