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

  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • penalty double — business double.
  • 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.
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • point the bone — to wish bad luck (on)
  • pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
  • 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.
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
  • queens problem — eight queens puzzle
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • rhombenporphyr — an intermediate igneous rock embedded with rhombus-shaped crystals
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • subspontaneous — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • superabsorbent — extremely or unusually absorbent: superabsorbent fibers.
  • telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
  • telephone book — a book, directory, or the like, usually containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers in a city or other area, together with their addresses and telephone numbers.
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.
  • unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
  • undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
  • unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
  • unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • unsaponifiable — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
  • xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
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