13-letter words containing b, p, i
- private label — the label of a product, or the product itself, sold under the name of a wholesaler or retailer, by special arrangement with the manufacturer or producer.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- psychobiology — 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.
- public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- public office — position in government
- public policy — the fundamental policy on which laws rest, especially policy not yet enunciated in specific rules.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- public spirit — active interest in public welfare or the good of the community
- pudding basin — A pudding basin is a deep round bowl that is used in the kitchen, especially for mixing or for cooking puddings.
- purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
- purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- receptibility — the quality or condition of being receptible
- repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- republicanism — republican government.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- republication — publication anew.
- rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
- septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
- sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- social phobia — a type of anxiety disorder characterized by shyness and heightened self-consciousness in particular social situations
- space biology — exobiology.
- spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
- speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
- spelling book — an elementary textbook or manual to teach spelling