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14-letter words containing i, a, b

  • 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.
  • octosyllabical — Alternative form of octosyllabic.
  • okavango basin — a river in SW central Africa, rising in central Angola and flowing southeast, then east as part of the border between Angola and Namibia, then southeast across the Caprivi Strip into Botswana to form a great marsh known as the Okavango Basin, Delta or Swamp. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles)
  • omnibus clause — a clause, especially in an automobile liability policy, extending coverage to persons other than the insured named in the policy.
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • orbital sander — a sander that uses a section of sandpaper clamped to a metal pad that moves at high speed in a very narrow orbit, driven by an electric motor.
  • ordinal number — Also called ordinal numeral. any of the numbers that express degree, quality, or position in a series, as first, second, and third (distinguished from cardinal number).
  • organizability — The suitability or potential for organization.
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • oxyhaemoglobin — the bright red product formed when oxygen from the lungs combines with haemoglobin in the blood
  • painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
  • palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
  • paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
  • 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.
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • pax britannica — a peace imposed by Great Britain upon hostile nations, especially in the 19th century.
  • pay bargaining — negotiating concerning salary or pay
  • payback period — the period in which money owed, debts, etc, have to be paid back
  • paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pituitary body — (formerly) the pituitary gland.
  • planning board — development group
  • 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.
  • 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
  • play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
  • plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
  • 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.
  • polarizability — to cause polarization in.
  • polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
  • poppaea sabina — died a.d. 65? second wife of the Roman emperor Nero.
  • port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
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