13-letter words containing a, b, d, p
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
- durable press — permanent press.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
- indispensable — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- indispensably — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- lambda prolog — (language) An extension of standard Prolog defined by Dale A. Miller and Gopalan Nadathur in 1986, in which terms are strongly typed lambda terms. Clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. The Prolog/Mali compiler compiles Lambda Prolog for the MALI abstract memory system. Mailing list: [email protected]
- lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
- non-adaptable — capable of being adapted.
- nondepletable — not depletable
- nondisposable — Not disposable.
- nonexpendable — capable of being expended.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- ophidiophobia — Ophiophobia.
- pandora's box — a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- pas de basque — a step in which the dancer swings one foot to the side, springs onto it, and swings the other foot against it.
- pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
- perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
- plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
- play hardball — baseball, as distinguished from softball.
- playback head — the part of a tape recorder that is used to pick up the magnetic pattern on tape in order to play back material previously recorded.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
- prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- spreader beam — a crosspiece for spacing the chains or cables hanging from the boom of a crane.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
- superabundant — exceedingly or excessively abundant; more than sufficient; excessive.