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14-letter words containing b, p, m

  • impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
  • incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • keep sb amused — If you keep someone amused, you find things to do which stop them getting bored.
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • manipulability — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • membranophones — Plural form of membranophone.
  • microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • napalm bombing — the act of attacking with napalm bombs
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • nfld & lab — Newfoundland and Labrador
  • non-compatible — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • noncompensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
  • perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • permissibility — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
  • phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
  • pilgrim bottle — a flat-sided water bottle having two loops at the side of a short neck for a suspending cord or chain.
  • platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
  • platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • plumbous oxide — litharge.
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
  • probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
  • semi-permeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
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