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14-letter words containing b, e, l, p

  • breast implant — an object such as a sachet filled with gel introduced surgically into a woman's breast to enlarge it
  • bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
  • bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
  • budget surplus — the amount by which government income from taxation, customs duties, etc, exceeds expenditure in any one fiscal year
  • bug-compatible — Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (especially) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0."
  • building paper — any of various types of heavy-duty paper that usually consist of bitumen reinforced with fibre sandwiched between two sheets of kraft paper: used in damp-proofing or as insulation between the soil and a road surface
  • bush telegraph — a means of communication between primitive peoples over large areas, as by drum beats
  • business reply — a form of mail, as a postcard, letter, or envelope, usually sent as an enclosure, and which can be mailed back by respondents without their having to pay postage.
  • businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
  • butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
  • cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
  • cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
  • capillary tube — a glass tube with a fine bore and thick walls, used in thermometers, etc
  • capital budget — a budget for major capital or investment expenditures
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • cerebral palsy — Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by damage to a baby's brain before or during its birth, which makes its limbs and muscles permanently weak.
  • clapper bridge — a primitive type of bridge in which planks or slabs of stone rest on piles of stones
  • claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
  • climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
  • cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
  • compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
  • compensability — eligibility for compensation
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • comprehendible — comprehensible
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • czech republic — a country in central Europe; formed part of Czechoslovakia until 1993; mostly wooded, with lowlands surrounding the River Morava, rising to the Bohemian plateau in the W and to highlands in the N; joined the EU in 2004. Language: Czech. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: koruna. Capital Prague. Pop: 10 162 921 (2013 est). Area: 78 864 sq km (30 450 sq miles)
  • decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
  • dependableness — Dependability.
  • deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
  • despicableness — The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
  • developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
  • discerpibility — the quality of being able to be discerped
  • dispensability — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
  • dispersibility — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
  • disposableness — Disposability.
  • disrespectable — not respectable.
  • double parking — the activity or offence of parking a vehicle in a traffic lane
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • double-dipping — the act or practice of receiving more than one income or collecting double benefits from the same employer or organization.
  • draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
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