15-letter words containing n, o, b, s, e
- double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
- double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
- double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
- drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
- elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
- english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
- extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
- flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
- football season — annual period when soccer is played
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
- get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
- good queen bess — Elizabeth I
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
- groundbreakings — Plural form of groundbreaking.
- heartbrokenness — The state or quality of being heartbroken.
- hiberno-english — Also called Anglo-Irish. the English language as spoken in Ireland.
- hobson's choice — the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
- hoosier cabinet — a tall kitchen cabinet mass-produced during the early part of the 20th century, usually of oak, featuring an enameled work surface, storage bins, a flour sifter, etc.
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
- immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
- immunoassayable — Suitable for immunoassay.
- in the box seat — in the best position
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
- indomitableness — Quality of being indomitable.
- indoor baseball — softball played indoors.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
- intolerableness — The state of being intolerable or insufferable.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.