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15-letter words containing b, p, i, c

  • objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
  • opening balance — the amount of money in an account at the start of an accounting period
  • orthopaedic bed — a specially firm bed designed to help correct or ameliorate the discomfort of disorders of the spine and joints
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • perissosyllabic — (of a line of verse) containing more syllables than expected for the metre being used
  • phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
  • 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.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • 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.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • 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-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.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • problematically — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • 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
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • 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
  • publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrometric bead — (in a kiln) a ball of material that indicates by changing color that a certain temperature has been reached.
  • red-back spider — a venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, of Australia and New Zealand, related to the black widow spider and having a bright red stripe on the back.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
  • 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.
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
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