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15-letter words containing b, i, l, o, p, e

  • opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
  • operating table — table on which surgery is performed
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • peroxide blonde — You can refer to a woman whose hair has been artificially been made lighter in colour as a peroxide blonde, especially when you want to show that you disapprove of this, or that you think her hair looks unnatural or unattractive.
  • philip the bold — 1342–1404, duke of Burgundy (1363–1404), noted for his courage at Poitiers (1356) in the Hundred Years' War: regent of France for his nephew Charles VI (1368–88, 1392–1404)
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
  • 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.
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
  • portable pixmap — (file format)   (PPM) A colour image file format. A PPM file contains the following: a two character "{magic number}" - "P3", the width in pixels, the height in pixels, the maximum colour component value, HEIGHT rows of WIDTH {pixels}. The rows are ordered from top to bottom with the pixels in each row ordered from left to right. Each pixel is represented as three values for red, green, and blue. All parts are separated by whitespace and numbers are in decimal ASCIII representation. A zero pixel component means that colour is absent. Characters from a "#" to the next end-of-line are ignored and no line should be longer than 70 characters. Here is an example of a small pixmap in this format: P3 # feep.ppm 4 4 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 7 0 0 0 15 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A "RAWBITS" variant has magic number "P6", pixel values are stored as plain binary bytes, instead of ASCII decimal and no whitespace is allowed after a single whitespace character after the maximum colour component value which must be less than or equal to 255.
  • post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
  • pot-bellied pig — A pot-bellied pig is a small, dark-colored pig, originally from Vietnam, that is sometimes kept as a pet.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • 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 property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • 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
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
  • subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
  • subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
  • uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
  • upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
  • visible exports — goods sold to a foreign country or countries
  • visible imports — products that a company or country buys from other countries
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