14-letter words containing b, i, o, s, p
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
- disposableness — Disposability.
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- european bison — a closely related and similar animal, Bison bonasus, formerly widespread in Europe
- expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- impossibleness — Quality of being impossible.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- non-respirable — capable of being respired.
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
- paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
- peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
- phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
- plumbous oxide — litharge.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- poppaea sabina — died a.d. 65? second wife of the Roman emperor Nero.
- possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
- post-obit bond — a bond paying a sum of money after the death of some specified person.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
- probabiliorist — someone who advocates probabiliorism
- processability — capable of being processed.
- prohibitionist — a person who favors or advocates prohibition.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.