15-letter words containing b, s, p, e, c
- 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
- 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
- phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- 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-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.
- procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
- sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- sibling species — one of two or more species that closely resemble one another but whose members cannot interbreed successfully.
- side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
- special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
- special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
- spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
- unpeaceableness — the quality or state of being unpeaceable; quarrelsomeness
- west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.