16-letter words containing b, s, o, d
- sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
- slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
- sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
- sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
- sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
- sodium perborate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, NaBO 2 ⋅3H 2 O or NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and antiseptic.
- sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
- spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
- st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
- stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- stroboradiograph — a stroboscopic radiograph.
- subordinationism — the doctrine that the first person of the Holy Trinity is superior to the second, and the second superior to the third.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
- swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sysdeco mimer ab — (company) Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
- tell one's beads — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- thrilled to bits — If someone is thrilled, they are extremely pleased about something.
- to bite the dust — If you say that something has bitten the dust, you are emphasizing that it no longer exists or that it has failed.
- to do one's best — If you do your best or try your best to do something, you try as hard as you can to do it, or do it as well as you can.
- to get bad press — If someone or something gets bad press, they are criticized, especially in the newspapers, on television, or on radio. If they get good press, they are praised.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- touring bindings — specialised ski bindings with releasable locked down heels that can be used for ski touring and backcountry skiing
- tread the boards — to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
- under one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.