15-letter words containing o, n, b, a, r
- promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- 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.
- radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- rational number — a number that can be expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers.
- recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recombinant dna — DNA in which one or more segments or genes have been inserted, either naturally or by laboratory manipulation, from a different molecule or from another part of the same molecule, resulting in a new genetic combination.
- recombinational — belonging or relating to recombination
- reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
- reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- record-breaking — top, most successful
- recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
- relational dbms — relational database
- restabilization — the act or process of stabilizing or the state of being stabilized.
- retained object — an object in a passive construction identical with the direct or indirect object in the active construction from which it is derived, as the picture in I was shown the picture, which is also the direct object in the active construction (They) showed me the picture.
- rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
- right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
- robin redbreast — robin (defs 1, 2).
- roger bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert) born 1929, English track and field athlete: first to run a mile in less than four minutes.
- rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
- romblon islands — a group of islands of the Philippines in the Sibuyan Sea and Tablas Strait, part of the Visayan Islands.
- root and branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- root-and-branch — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
- roundaboutation — circumlocution
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rubbing alcohol — a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- scribaciousness — the quality or state of being scribacious
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
- serous membrane — any of various thin membranes, as the peritoneum, that line certain cavities of the body and exude a serous fluid.
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- silicon carbide — a very hard, insoluble, crystalline compound, SiC, used as an abrasive and as an electrical resistor in objects exposed to high temperatures.
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- starting blocks — the rigid blocks adjustable at an angle and mounted on a track against which a runner's shoes are placed to aid in starting
- strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
- sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.