13-letter words containing a, b, i, n
- pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
- parietal bone — either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.
- parking brake — emergency brake.
- parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
- partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
- pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
- perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
- peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilot balloon — a balloon for the visual observation of upper-atmosphere wind currents.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- 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.
- quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
- queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
- rabbit warren — warren.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
- recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
- recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.