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12-letter words containing o, p, e, n, b

  • incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
  • incorporable — able to be incorporated.
  • indisposable — Not disposable.
  • inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
  • insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
  • interpolable — able to be interpolated, or suited to interpolation
  • joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
  • keep tabs on — a small flap, strap, loop, or similar appendage, as on a garment, used for pulling, hanging, or decoration.
  • kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
  • mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
  • montes pubis — mons pubis
  • nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
  • non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
  • non-operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
  • nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
  • nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
  • note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
  • palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
  • pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
  • pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
  • payment bond — See under contract bond.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
  • peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
  • phone number — of individual, business
  • phytobenthos — microscopic plants that live in the bottom of the ocean
  • piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
  • pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
  • pigeon blood — dark red.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • polybutylene — any of several polymers of butylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants and synthetic rubber.
  • polyembryony — the production of more than one embryo from one egg.
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • procarbazine — a drug used in the treatment of cancer, esp lymphomas
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