13-letter words containing b, a, s, e, p
- blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
- blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- breaker strip — breaker1 (def 4).
- breaker-strip — a person or thing that breaks.
- breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
- breeches part — a male role played by an actress.
- business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- bypass engine — a gas turbine in which a part of the compressor delivery bypasses the combustion zone, flowing directly into or around the main exhaust gas flow to provide additional thrust
- cap and bells — the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it
- capstan table — drum table.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- durable press — permanent press.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.
- incapableness — The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- indispensable — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- indispensably — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
- inexpressable — Not capable of being expressed.
- insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
- library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
- lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
- non-opposable — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
- non-spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.