14-letter words containing p, o, s, t, b
- football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- keep sb posted — update regularly
- keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
- paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- post-obit bond — a bond paying a sum of money after the death of some specified person.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- probabiliorist — someone who advocates probabiliorism
- processability — capable of being processed.
- prohibitionist — a person who favors or advocates prohibition.
- protopresbyter — a title given to distinguished priests.
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- 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.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables