15-letter words containing o, b, y
- problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- programmability — capable of being programmed.
- proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
- psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
- questionability — of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, etc.: questionable activities; in questionable taste.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- reynolds number — a dimensionless number, vρl/η, where v is the fluid velocity, ρ the density, η the viscosity and l a dimension of the system. The value of the number indicates the type of fluid flow
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- rotary debugger — (Commodore) Essential equipment for those late-night or early-morning debugging sessions. Mainly used as sustenance for the hacker. Comes in many decorator colours, such as Sausage, Pepperoni, and Garbage.
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- say one's beads — to pray with a rosary
- schoolboy crush — an infatuation that a young boy has, usually for an older woman such as a teacher or an actress, which is seen as superficial and unlikely to last for long
- sell one's body — If someone sells their body, they have sex for money.
- sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
- sibylline books — (in ancient Rome) a collection of prophetic sayings, supposedly bought from the Cumaean sibyl, bearing upon Roman policy and religion
- soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
- social mobility — mobility (def 2).
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
- 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
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
- substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- susan b anthony — Antony, Mark.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- 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
- symbolics, inc. — (company) The company which produced the Lisp Machine.
- synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
- 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.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted