15-letter words containing b, e, n, p, l
- platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
- plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
- plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
- plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
- pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
- predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
- prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- responsibleness — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
- rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
- sibling species — one of two or more species that closely resemble one another but whose members cannot interbreed successfully.
- slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- sleeping tablet — A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill.
- snapping beetle — click beetle.
- spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- spiral notebook — a notebook held together by a coil of wire passed through small holes punched at the back edge of the covers and individual pages
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- telephone booth — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
- tobacco planter — a tool that was formerly used by tobacco farmers to plant tobacco with
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- underpublicized — lacking publicity
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled