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16-letter words containing o, s, t, e, b, l

  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • occasional table — a small table with no regular use
  • one's level best — the best one can do
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
  • phlebothrombosis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein.
  • pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
  • police constable — police officer
  • post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
  • public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
  • questionableness — The state or condition of being questionable; dubiousness.
  • reasonable doubt — law: grounds for believing sb is innocent
  • redistributional — a distribution performed again or anew.
  • responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • sandlot baseball — a form of baseball played by children on an area of vacant ground
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • self-approbation — approval; commendation.
  • self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • shoot one's bolt — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • shoot-to-disable — of or relating to shooting by soldiers or police that is intended to disable rather than kill
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
  • sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
  • sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • south sea bubble — the financial crash that occurred in 1720 after the South Sea Company had taken over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks
  • southerly buster — a sudden violent cold wind on the SE coast of Australia causing a rapid drop in temperature
  • spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
  • spectrobolometer — an instrument consisting of a spectroscope and a bolometer, for determining the distribution of radiant energy in a spectrum.
  • stockbroker belt — The stockbroker belt is an area outside a city, especially London, where rich people who travel to work in the city live.
  • stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • tablets of stone — Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed.
  • tell one's beads — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the boys in blue — The police are sometimes referred to as the boys in blue.
  • the eastern bloc — (formerly) the Soviet bloc
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • thrilled to bits — If someone is thrilled, they are extremely pleased about something.
  • thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
  • to be off limits — If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there.
  • to come to blows — If two people or groups come to blows, they start fighting.
  • under one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • up to the elbows — deeply engaged (in work, etc.)
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
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