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14-letter words containing e, b, a

  • pebble-leather — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
  • peck's bad boy — the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
  • pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • pedestal table — a table supported upon a central shaft, or upon several shafts along its centerline, each resting upon a spreading foot or feet.
  • pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
  • penalty double — business double.
  • penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated
  • perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • 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.
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • perturbational — relating to perturbation
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • phenobarbitone — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • phi beta kappa — a national honor society, founded in 1776, whose members are chosen, for lifetime membership, usually from among college undergraduates of high academic distinction.
  • piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
  • pipeline break — (architecture)   (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
  • pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  • placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
  • plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
  • play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • 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
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
  • poppaea sabina — died a.d. 65? second wife of the Roman emperor Nero.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
  • predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
  • pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • 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.
  • probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
  • probable error — a quantity formerly used as a measure of variability: equal to 0.6745 times the standard deviation. A normally distributed population has half of its elements within one probable error of the mean.
  • processability — capable of being processed.
  • progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
  • proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
  • protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
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