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14-letter words containing c, o, b, p, i

  • diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
  • double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
  • euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • hydrophobicity — (chemistry, uncountable) The condition of being hydrophobic.
  • hyperbolically — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • ibm compatible — (computer)   A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
  • inapproachable — not approachable.
  • incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • irreproachable — free from blame; not able to be reproached or censured.
  • irreproachably — In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly.
  • irreproducible — unable to be reproduced or recreated.
  • john q. public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
  • micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • non-applicable — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • non-compatible — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
  • occipital lobe — the most posterior lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, behind the parietal and temporal lobes.
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • parabiotically — in a parabiotic manner
  • particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
  • 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.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
  • polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • productibility — the ability to produce
  • protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
  • public holiday — national day off work
  • public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
  • public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
  • public opinion — the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., especially as a guide to action, decision, or the like.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
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