14-letter words containing p, o, b
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- public holiday — national day off work
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public opinion — the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., especially as a guide to action, decision, or the like.
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
- ribeirao preto — a city in SE Brazil.
- roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- sheepback rock — roche moutonnée.
- soapbox orator — a person who makes a speech on, or as if on, a soapbox
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
- springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
- streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
- subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
- subspontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
- sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
- superabsorbent — extremely or unusually absorbent: superabsorbent fibers.
- superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
- superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
- susceptible to — liable to
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
- telephone book — a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
- tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
- the upper body — the part of the body above the waist
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.