14-letter words containing b, e, l, p, r
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
- probable error — a quantity formerly used as a measure of variability: equal to 0.6745 times the standard deviation. A normally distributed population has half of its elements within one probable error of the mean.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
- reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
- respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
- respectabilize — to make respectable
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
- rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- 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)
- semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
- 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.
- 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
- streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
- superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
- tatar republic — a constituent republic of W Russia, around the confluence of the Volga and Kama Rivers. Capital: Kazan. Pop: 3 779 800 (2002). Area: 68 000 sq km (26 250 sq miles)
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated