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

  • liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.
  • liberty party — the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.
  • library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
  • library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
  • lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
  • loblolly pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
  • loebner prize — (artificial intelligence)   An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Loebner of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test. Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer, Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich Capital Markets, Motorola, the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation. The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition. Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available.
  • lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
  • manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
  • melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
  • mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
  • methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
  • multiple boot — dual boot
  • multiplicable — capable of being multiplied.
  • needle biopsy — the removal of a small amount of tissue or cellular material with a long hollow surgical needle, performed for diagnostic purposes.
  • non-adaptable — capable of being adapted.
  • non-imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
  • non-opposable — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
  • non-repayable — to pay back or refund, as money.
  • non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
  • non-spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
  • nonalphabetic — not employing alphabetic order
  • nonapplicable — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • noncomparable — not comparable
  • noncompatible — Not compatible.
  • nondepletable — not depletable
  • nondisposable — Not disposable.
  • nonexpendable — capable of being expended.
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • object pascal — (language)   An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
  • open a bottle — If you open a bottle, you remove the cork or cap.
  • optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • palaeobiology — the study of fossil plants and animals
  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • parallel bars — (used with a plural verb) a gymnasium apparatus consisting of two wooden bars on uprights, adjustable in height, and used for swinging, vaulting, balancing exercises, etc.
  • paraphrasable — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parietal bone — either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.
  • parietal lobe — the middle part of each cerebral hemisphere behind the central sulcus.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • particle beam — Physics. a concentrated stream of particles, as electrons, neutrons, or protons, generated for studying particle interactions, nuclear structure, crystal structure, etc.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
  • peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
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