12-letter words containing b, p, i
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- chromophobia — Lb biology The quality of being resistant to staining.
- chronophobia — Fear of the passing of time, or more generally of time itself.
- clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- complainable — That may be complained of.
- compressible — If something is compressible, its volume can change when pressure is applied to it.
- contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- corncob pipe — a pipe made from a dried corncob
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- cryptobiosis — a temporary state in an organism in which metabolic activity is absent or undetectable
- cryptobiotic — Of or pertaining to cryptobiosis.
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- cyberspastic — (humour) A person suffering from information overload while browsing the Internet or web. Compare webhead.
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
- displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
- disreputable — not reputable; having a bad reputation: a disreputable barroom.
- disreputably — In a disreputable manner.
- double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- elephantbird — Alternative form of elephant bird.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- ephebophilia — the condition of being sexually attracted to adolescents
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- graphophobia — Fear or dislike of writing.
- hairpin bend — A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.