13-letter words containing b, i, p, o
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- photo-biology — the study of the effects of light on biological systems.
- photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilot balloon — a balloon for the visual observation of upper-atmosphere wind currents.
- pilot biscuit — hardtack.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
- play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- polling booth — a booth in which voters cast their votes.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
- polysyllabism — a polysyllabic style or the use of multisyllabic words
- possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
- primum mobile — (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- public office — position in government
- public policy — the fundamental policy on which laws rest, especially policy not yet enunciated in specific rules.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.