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

  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • non-respirable — capable of being respired.
  • noncompensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
  • nonpolarizable — not able to be polarized
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • penalty double — business double.
  • penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • perturbational — relating to perturbation
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • pipeline break — (architecture)   (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
  • 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.
  • spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
  • 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
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • suspender belt — garter belt.
  • suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
  • telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
  • telephone book — a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • 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.
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