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13-letter words containing i, n, e, b

  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • parietal bone — either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • phenobarbital — 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.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rabbit warren — warren.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • refried beans — fried mashed beans
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
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