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12-letter words containing b, e, l, p, r

  • nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
  • palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
  • panel beater — a person who beats out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
  • participable — capable of being shared.
  • pearl barley — barley milled into small, round grains, used in cooking, especially in soups.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
  • peeblesshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • phlebography — venography.
  • phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • polyembryony — the production of more than one embryo from one egg.
  • polyribosome — polysome.
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
  • prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
  • problem area — a place that is prone to a particular problem or danger, such as flooding or road-traffic accidents
  • problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
  • problem-free — without problems
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
  • probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
  • programmable — capable of being programmed.
  • proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
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