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15-letter words containing s, a, o

  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • blueback salmon — sockeye salmon.
  • boa constrictor — A boa constrictor is a large snake that kills animals by wrapping itself round their bodies and squeezing them to death. Boa constrictors are found mainly in South and Central America and the West Indies.
  • boarding school — A boarding school is a school which some or all of the pupils live in during the school term. Compare day school.
  • body mass index — A person's body mass index is a measurement that represents the relationship between their weight and their height.
  • bohemian forest — a mountain range between the SW Czech Republic and SE Germany. Highest peak: Arber, 1457 m (4780 ft)
  • boiled potatoes — potatoes, usually peeled, cooked in boiling water
  • bologna sausage — a large smoked sausage made of seasoned mixed meats
  • book of changes — an ancient Chinese book of divination, in which 64 pairs of trigrams are shown with various interpretations.
  • borderline case — a person or thing that is not clearly classifiable as something
  • borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • boston marriage — (especially in 19th-century New England) an intimate friendship between two women often maintaining a household together.
  • boston massacre — an outbreak (1770) in Boston against British troops, in which a few citizens were killed
  • box the compass — to name the compass points in order
  • brachistochrone — the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent
  • brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • brand extension — the practice of using a well-known brand name to promote new products or services in unrelated fields
  • breach of trust — a violation of duty by a trustee or any other person in a fiduciary position
  • breeding season — the time of year during which animals breed
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • bristol fashion — clean and neat, with newly painted and scrubbed surfaces, brass polished, etc
  • broadcast storm — (networking)   A broadcast on a network that causes multiple hosts to respond by broadcasting themselves, causing the storm to grow exponentially in severity. See network meltdown.
  • broca's aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • bronze diabetes — hemochromatosis.
  • brother-in-arms — a fellow soldier or comrade in a shared struggle
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • buffalo soldier — (formerly, especially among American Indians) a black soldier.
  • bughouse square — Informal. any intersection or park mall in a big city where political zealots, agitators, folk evangelists, etc., congregate to argue and make soapbox speeches.
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • bullnose header — bull header (def 1).
  • bullnose-header — Also called bullnose header. a brick having one of the edges across its width rounded for laying as a header in a sill or the like.
  • bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bureau of mines — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.
  • buys-ballot law — the law stating that if one stands with one's back to the wind, in the Northern Hemisphere the atmospheric pressure will be lower on one's left and in the Southern Hemisphere it will be lower on one's right: descriptive of the relationship of horizontal winds to atmospheric pressure.
  • by all accounts — according to everyone
  • caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • caisson disease — decompression sickness
  • calcareous clay — soil with high limestone content
  • calcareous tufa — tufa
  • california rose — a cultivated variety of a bindweed, Calystegia hederacea, having showy, double, rose-colored flowers.
  • camp counsellor — an adult supervisor assigned to a group of campers at a summer camp
  • canada moonseed — a vine, Menispermum canadense, of eastern North America, having variable leaves and black, grapelike fruit.
  • canadian forces — the official name for the military forces of Canada
  • canisterization — the process of putting (something) into a canister or canisters
  • cannibalisation — Alternative form of cannibalization.
  • cape gooseberry — a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries
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