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14-letter words containing a, p, r, i, s, b

  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
  • probabiliorist — someone who advocates probabiliorism
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • spanish arabic — the Arabic language as used in Spain during the period of Moorish domination and influence, c900–1500. Abbreviation: SpAr.
  • spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
  • special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
  • spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
  • spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
  • springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
  • superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
  • thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
  • unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
  • upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
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