14-letter words containing b, e, l, p
- dropper bottle — A dropper bottle is a container from which medicine is administered using a device that lets the medicine out in drops.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- ensemble piece — a play involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance
- 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.
- expressibility — The quality of being expressible.
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- 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.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- general public — people in general
- gilbert patten — Gilbert ("Burt L. Standish") 1866–1945, U.S. writer of adventure stories.
- 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
- heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
- hyperbarically — in a hyperbaric manner
- hyperbatically — in a hyperbatic manner
- hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperexcitable — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
- hyperirritable — extreme irritability.
- hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- hyperpermeable — Having higher than normal permeability.
- 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.
- impassableness — The quality of being impassable.
- impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
- imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- impermeability — not permeable; impassable.
- imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
- implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
- imponderabilia — Those things that are imponderable.
- impossibleness — Quality of being impossible.
- impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
- impressibility — The quality of being impressible.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- inapproachable — not approachable.
- incapabilities — not capable.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- inculpableness — The quality of being inculpable; blamelessness.
- indecipherable — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecipherably — not decipherable; illegible.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- indiscerptible — not discerptible; indivisible.
- indispensables — Plural form of indispensable.