13-letter words containing a, r, p, o, b
- improbability — the quality or condition of being improbable; unlikelihood.
- improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
- insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
- interoperable — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interoperably — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
- 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]
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- membranophone — any musical instrument, as a drum, in which the sound is produced by striking, rubbing, or blowing against a membrane stretched over a frame.
- mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- non-repayable — to pay back or refund, as money.
- non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- noncomparable — not comparable
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
- notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- optical fiber — optical fibre
- optical fibre — (communications) (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
- ora pro nobis — a Latin invocation meaning pray for us
- ornithophobia — Fear of birds.
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- 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.
- parabolically — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parasymbiosis — the symbiotic relationship that occurs between certain species of fungi and lichens (which are themselves symbiotic associations between a fungus and an alga)
- 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.
- parietal lobe — the middle part of each cerebral hemisphere behind the central sulcus.
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
- parking orbit — a temporary orbit in which a spacecraft awaits the next phase of its mission.
- parrot's-bill — a showy, vinelike plant, Clianthus puniceus, of New Zealand, having clusters of eight white-streaked, crimson flowers.
- parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- 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.
- perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
- personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
- 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.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- 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.
- pleasure boat — recreational vessel
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome