14-letter words containing o, p, s, n
- attention span — the period of time during which someone's attention is held by something in particular
- audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
- auspiciousness — The state or quality of being auspicious or successful.
- autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
- autotransplant — autograft.
- baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
- bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
- base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
- bass saxophone — a large saxophone of low range, usually supported on a stand while being played.
- basso profundo — (esp in operatic solo singing) a singer with a very deep bass voice
- benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
- beyond dispute — not open to dispute or question; settled
- bioprospecting — searching for plant or animal species for use as a source of commercially exploitable products, such as medicinal drugs
- bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
- bisphosphonate — any drug of a class that inhibits the resorption of bone; used in treating certain bone disorders, esp osteoporosis
- bite one's lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
- block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
- blood spinning — a medical treatment, a use for which is the healing of sports-related injuries, that involves removing the platelet cells from the patient’s blood sample then injecting them into the injured area in order to speed recovery
- blow one's top — to lose one's temper
- bomb explosion — an explosion caused by the detonation of a bomb
- bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
- bouillon spoon — a spoon with a round bowl, smaller than a soup spoon.
- bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- bronchospastic — of or relating to bronchospasms
- brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
- bulk transport — the transport of large quantities of goods or commodities in lorries, ships, or by rail
- bursting point — the point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
- businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
- camp counselor — activities supervisor
- campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
- capitalisation — The act or process of capitalising.
- capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
- chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- clinopyroxenes — Plural form of clinopyroxene.
- close position — an arrangement of a chord that has the three upper voices close together
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
- co-respondents — men's two-coloured shoes, usually black and white or brown and white
- cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
- cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.