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.