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15-letter words containing a, b, m, p, e

  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
  • opening batsman — a player who bats the first ball in cricket
  • paperbark maple — a shrub or tree, Acer griseum, native to China, cultivated for its attractive papery brownish bark.
  • 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
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
  • plasma membrane — cell membrane.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • portable pixmap — (file format)   (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
  • predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
  • presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
  • prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • september rains — rainy weather during the month of September
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
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