13-letter words containing i, n, t, a, b
- 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
- 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.
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
- 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.
- pilot balloon — a balloon for the visual observation of upper-atmosphere wind currents.
- 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.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
- rabbit warren — warren.
- rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
- rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- 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
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- republication — publication anew.
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- retainability — to keep possession of.
- reverberation — a reechoed sound.
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- right-brained — having the right brain dominant, therefore being more adept at spatial and nonverbal concepts and being more creative and emotional than logical and analytical.
- robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
- run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
- saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- san sebastian — a seaport in N Spain: resort.
- sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
- satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- seasonability — fact of being seasonable
- sensible heat — Sensible heat is heat which is exchanged in an energy generation system, and which only affects the temperature of one or more substances.
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- shot-blasting — the cleaning of metal, etc, by a stream of shot
- silent barter — dumb barter.