15-letter words containing bo
- smelling bottle — a small bottle or vial for holding smelling salts or perfume.
- soapbox oratory — public speaking typical of soapbox orators
- social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
- soft-boiled egg — boiled egg with runny yolk
- sound symbolism — a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
- spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- suboptimization — a situation which is less than optimal
- suborganization — an organization within a larger organization
- sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
- suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- symbol retailer — any member of a voluntary group of independent retailers, often using a common name or symbol, formed to obtain better prices from wholesalers or manufacturers in competition with supermarket chains
- symbolics, inc. — (company) The company which produced the Lisp Machine.
- telephone booth — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- the-sketch-book — a collection of essays and stories (1819–20) by Washington Irving.
- thromboembolism — the blockage of a blood vessel by a thrombus carried through the bloodstream from its site of formation.
- throw overboard — to reject or abandon
- titius-bode law — Bode's law.
- turbinate bones — the thin scroll-shaped bones situated on the walls of the nasal passages
- turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
- unbosom oneself — to tell or reveal one's feelings, secrets, etc.
- unskilled labor — work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.
- us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- well-elaborated — worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care. Synonyms: perfected, painstaking. Antonyms: simple.
- wellington boot — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
- whalebone whale — any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, having plates of whalebone on the sides of the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.