15-letter words containing bo
- mbogo, dr. fred — /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, especially an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleaning." The name comes from synergy between "bogus" and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old "Addams Family" TV show. Compare Bloggs Family, the, see also fred.
- medicine bottle — a small bottle used to hold medicine
- meibomian gland — any of the small sebaceous glands in the eyelid, beneath the conjunctiva
- morale-boosting — A morale-boosting action or event makes people feel more confident and cheerful.
- municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
- neighbor states — the states or countries next to another state or country
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- nickel carbonyl — a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO) 4 , obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.
- no-claims bonus — law: insurance premium reduction
- nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
- old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
- on the port bow — within 45 degrees to the port of straight ahead
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- organized labor — all workers who are organized in labor unions.
- orthoboric acid — boric acid (def 1). Compare ortho- (def 2).
- outside the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
- pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
- paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- petit bourgeois — a person who belongs to the petite bourgeoisie.
- petty bourgeois — petit bourgeois
- philip the bold — 1342–1404, duke of Burgundy (1363–1404), noted for his courage at Poitiers (1356) in the Hundred Years' War: regent of France for his nephew Charles VI (1368–88, 1392–1404)
- phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
- pink-shirt book — (publication) "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
- polycarboxylate — a salt or ester of a polycarboxylic acid. Polycarboxylate esters are used in certain detergents
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- post office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
- primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
- pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
- promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- put the boot in — If someone puts the boot in, they attack another person by saying something cruel, often when the person is already feeling weak or upset.
- qaboos bin said — born 1940, Sultan of Oman from 1970
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- registered bond — a bond recorded in the name of the owner.
- ribonucleotides — an ester, composed of a ribonucleoside and phosphoric acid, that is a constituent of ribonucleic acid.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- roundaboutation — circumlocution
- roundaboutility — roundaboutness
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- runabout ticket — a rail ticket that allows unlimited travel within a specified area for a limited period of time (for example one day, a weekend, three days, etc)
- running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- schoolboy crush — an infatuation that a young boy has, usually for an older woman such as a teacher or an actress, which is seen as superficial and unlikely to last for long
- sell one's body — If someone sells their body, they have sex for money.
- sesquicarbonate — a salt intermediate in composition between a carbonate and a bicarbonate or consisting of the two combined.
- sibylline books — (in ancient Rome) a collection of prophetic sayings, supposedly bought from the Cumaean sibyl, bearing upon Roman policy and religion
- sink a borehole — To sink a borehole means to drill a deep hole in the ground.