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

  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
  • 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.
  • self-prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • sepoy rebellion — the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58
  • sibling species — one of two or more species that closely resemble one another but whose members cannot interbreed successfully.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
  • sleeping tablet — A sleeping tablet is the same as a sleeping pill.
  • snapping beetle — click beetle.
  • special library — a library maintained by an organization, as a business, association, or government agency, to collect materials and provide information of special relevance to the work of the organization.
  • special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • 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
  • suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
  • udmurt republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the basin of the middle Kama. Capital: Izhevsk. Pop: 1 570 500 (2002). Area: 42 100 sq km (16 250 sq miles)
  • 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.
  • unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
  • unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
  • uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • underpublicized — lacking publicity
  • undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
  • unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
  • uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
  • 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
  • weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
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