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14-letter words containing b, a, p, t

  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
  • disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
  • dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
  • dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
  • eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
  • expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
  • exploitability — The state or condition of being exploitable.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
  • gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
  • global product — a commercial product that is marketed throughout the world under the same brand name
  • greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
  • health problem — ailment or disorder
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
  • hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
  • hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperirritable — extreme irritability.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • ibm compatible — (computer)   A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
  • impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
  • impermeability — not permeable; impassable.
  • imperturbation — freedom from perturbation; tranquillity; calmness.
  • imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
  • implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • incapabilities — not capable.
  • inescapability — (uncountable) The state or property of being inescapable.
  • inseparability — incapable of being separated, parted, or disjoined: inseparable companions.
  • inspectability — to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically: to inspect every part of the motor.
  • insuperability — The quality or state of being insuperable; insuperableness.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • jarabe tapatio — a dance of Mexican origin, performed by a couple and consisting of nine figures and melodies, in which the partners often dance facing each other but not touching.
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • latin alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from the Greek alphabet through Etruscan, used from about the 6th century b.c. for the writing of Latin, and since adopted, with modifications and additions of letters such as w, by the languages of Western Europe, including English, as well as many other languages.
  • manipulability — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • non-compatible — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
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