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12-letter words containing b, p, e, l

  • palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
  • palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
  • paleobiology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
  • palm cabbage — cabbage palm.
  • palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
  • panel beater — a person who beats out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
  • participable — capable of being shared.
  • passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • pearl barley — barley milled into small, round grains, used in cooking, especially in soups.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
  • pebble beach — a beach covered with pebbles or stones rather than sand
  • pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
  • peeblesshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
  • persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • phlebography — venography.
  • phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
  • phlebotomize — to subject to phlebotomy; bleed.
  • photolyzable — able to undergo photolysis
  • phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
  • piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
  • picnic table — table-and-bench structure used outdoors
  • pigeon blood — dark red.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
  • plenum cable — (hardware)   Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
  • plunket baby — a baby brought up in infancy under the dietary recommendations of the Plunket Society
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • polybutylene — any of several polymers of butylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants and synthetic rubber.
  • polyembryony — the production of more than one embryo from one egg.
  • polyribosome — polysome.
  • polysyllable — a polysyllabic word.
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
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