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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.
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