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16-letter words containing s, n, o, b, l

  • on a trial basis — for the purpose of assessment
  • one's level best — the best one can do
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pribilof islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)
  • prisoner of bill — (humour)   (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
  • pro-abolitionist — (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
  • proslambanomenos — the lowest note of the scale in ancient Greek music
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • 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.
  • public transport — fare-paying travel
  • publishing house — a company that publishes books, pamphlets, engravings, or the like: a venerable publishing house in Boston.
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, 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.
  • remember oneself — to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly
  • responsibilities — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • robin's plantain — the rattlesnake weed, Hieracium venosum.
  • robin's-egg blue — a pale green to a light greenish-blue color.
  • sandlot baseball — a form of baseball played by children on an area of vacant ground
  • school librarian — a librarian who works in or is in charge of a school library
  • scribbling block — scratch pad.
  • sebaceous glands — any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
  • 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.
  • sensible horizon — the line or circle that forms the apparent boundary between earth and sky.
  • shoot one's bolt — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • slubberdegullion — a slovenly or worthless person
  • sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
  • sounding balloon — a balloon carrying instruments aloft to make atmospheric measurements, especially a radiosonde balloon.
  • south burlington — a town in NW Vermont.
  • stone-cold sober — If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • subcartilaginous — partially or incompletely cartilaginous.
  • sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
  • 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 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
  • unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
  • uncomprehensible — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • under bare poles — (of a sailing vessel) with no sails set
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