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15-letter words containing o, b, e, y

  • sibylline books — (in ancient Rome) a collection of prophetic sayings, supposedly bought from the Cumaean sibyl, bearing upon Roman policy and religion
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
  • storage battery — a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
  • symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
  • to do your 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.
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • under your belt — If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
  • unobjectionably — without objection
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
  • voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • ytterbium oxide — a colorless compound, Yb 2 O 3 , used in certain alloys and ceramics.
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