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15-letter words containing s, e, b, o

  • debenture stock — stock that pays a fixed rate of interest at fixed intervals
  • debt counsellor — a person who advises people who are in debt on how to deal with their debt and get out of it
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • decree absolute — A decree absolute is the final order made by a court in a divorce case which ends a marriage completely.
  • demonstrability — The quality of being demonstrable.
  • destabilisation — Alternative spelling of destabilization.
  • destabilization — to make unstable; rid of stabilizing attributes: conflicts that tend to destabilize world peace.
  • destruct button — a button that, when pressed, causes a missile or rocket to destruct
  • detribalisation — Alternative form of detribalization.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • discount broker — an agent who discounts commercial paper.
  • do one's number — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • do the business — to achieve what is required
  • dodecasyllables — Plural form of dodecasyllable.
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • dorsibranchiate — having branchiae or gills along the back
  • double exposure — the act of exposing the same film, frame, plate, etc., twice.
  • double in brass — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double or quits — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • double saucepan — a cooking utensil consisting of two saucepans, one fitting inside the other. The bottom saucepan contains water that, while boiling, gently heats food in the upper pan
  • double standard — any code or set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, especially an unwritten code of sexual behavior permitting men more freedom than women. Compare single standard (def 1).
  • double stopping — playing two notes or parts simultaneously on a string instrument
  • double-breasted — (of a coat, jacket, etc.) overlapping sufficiently in front to allow for two rows of buttons.
  • drop handlebars — aerodynamic handlebars that drop down and curve towards the rider at the ends rather than turning upwards as on conventional bicycles
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • embroidery silk — a silk thread used for embroidery
  • emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • english bulldog — bulldog (sense 1)
  • eta abstraction — eta conversion
  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • exhibitionistic — Having a tendency toward exhibitionism.
  • extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
  • football season — annual period when soccer is played
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
  • gambling losses — money lost as a result of playing games of chance for money
  • garboard strake — the first strake on each side of a keel.
  • get sb into bed — To get someone into bed means to persuade them to have sex with you.
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