12-letter words containing b, i, l, o, p, e
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
- paleobiology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- phlebotomize — to subject to phlebotomy; bleed.
- piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
- pigeon blood — dark red.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- polyribosome — polysome.
- port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
- reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- tribespeople — members of a tribe; people living a tribal lifestyle
- triple bogey — a score of three strokes over par on a hole.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- zebulon pike — James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.