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12-letter words containing b, p, i

  • irrepairable — not able to be repaired, or beyond repair
  • irrepealable — incapable of being repealed or revoked.
  • irreplacable — Misspelling of irreplaceable.
  • irreplicable — Incapable of being replicated.
  • irreprovable — Not reprovable; irreproachable.
  • irreprovably — in an irreprovable manner
  • irrespirable — not respirable; unfit for breathing.
  • islamophobia — Alternative capitalization of Islamophobia.
  • job printing — commercial printing of such items as letterheads, circulars, invitations, etc.
  • jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
  • khaibar pass — Khyber Pass.
  • kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
  • liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
  • mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
  • metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
  • micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
  • misprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
  • mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
  • montes pubis — mons pubis
  • multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
  • observership — someone or something that observes.
  • ochlophobiac — a person who suffers from ochlophobia
  • odontophobia — an unnatural dread or terror of teeth
  • ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
  • on probation — under the supervision of a probation officer
  • on shipboard — on board a ship
  • opposability — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
  • paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
  • paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
  • pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • paintballing — a sport in which players compete in teams or individually to eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint from a special gun
  • paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
  • palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
  • palatability — acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory: palatable food.
  • 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.
  • panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
  • panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
  • parisyllabic — (of a noun or verb, in inflected languages) containing the same number of syllables in all or almost all inflected forms
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