13-letter words containing b, e, p, l
- colonel blimp — an elderly, pompous British reactionary, especially an army officer or government official.
- companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- deceptibility — the ability to be deceived
- deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
- dependability — software reliability
- deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- double-dumped — (of a wool bale) compressed, with two bales occupying the volume-equivalent of one ordinary bale
- double-duplex — (communications) (From telegraphy) A full-duplex link with two telegraphers (a sender and a receiver) at each end, to simultaneously transmit in both directions. Compare: single-duplex.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- durable press — permanent press.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
- exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
- expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
- expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- explicability — The state of being explicable.
- exportability — The property of being exportable.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- hypermobility — An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint.