15-letter words containing b, i

pick up the tab — If you pick up the tab, you pay a bill on behalf of a group of people or provide the money that is needed for something.
pickaback plane — a powered airplane designed to be carried aloft by another airplane and released in flight.
pickaback plant — piggyback plant.
picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant.
pinball machine — the tablelike, usually coin-operated machine on which pinball is played.
pink-shirt book — (publication) "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC". The original cover featured a picture of Peter Norton with a silly smirk on his face, wearing a pink shirt. Perhaps in recognition of this usage, the current edition has a different picture of Norton wearing a pink shirt. See also book titles.
pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
planning blight — the harmful effects of uncertainty about likely restrictions on the types and extent of future development in a particular area on the quality of life of its inhabitants and the normal growth of its business and community enterprises
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.
plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
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.
plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
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 office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
post-liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
pot-bellied pig — A pot-bellied pig is a small, dark-colored pig, originally from Vietnam, that is sometimes kept as a pet.
prairie breaker — breaker1 (def 6).
prairie warbler — an eastern North American wood warbler, Dendroica discolor, olive-green above, yellow below, and striped with black on the face and sides.
pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
pre-established — to establish beforehand.
predeterminable — able to be predetermined; able to be determined in advance
presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
presbyterianize — to convert or be converted into Presbyterianism
prima ballerina — the principal ballerina in a ballet company.
primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
prisoner's base — any of various children's games in which each of two teams has a home base where members of the opposing team are kept prisoner after being tagged or caught and from which they can be freed only in specified ways.
private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
pro-abortionist — pro-choice.
probation order — an order imposed by a magistrate or judge under which an offender is sentenced to probation rather than imprisonment
probationership — the position of a probationer
probit equation — A probit equation is used to quantify the relationship between the concentration of a dangerous material and its effect on people.
problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
programmability — capable of being programmed.
promotion board — group that markets or advertises sth
proximity probe — A proximity probe is an instrument for measuring how far the surface of a component is away from the end of the probe.
pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
psychobiologist — 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.
pubic directory — [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub" (public) directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is the default location for SEX (software exchange).
pubic symphysis — the fixed joint at the front of the pelvic girdle where the halves of the pubis meet.
public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public

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