13-letter words containing b, e, p
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- deceptibility — the ability to be deceived
- deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
- 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.
- dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
- 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.
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- 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.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- 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.
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- 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
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.