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13-letter words containing p, a, r, b, e

  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • chamber opera — an opera requiring few performers and a small orchestra.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
  • exportability — The property of being exportable.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
  • haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • imperceivable — That cannot be perceived; imperceptible.
  • imperturbable — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
  • imperturbably — incapable of being upset or agitated; not easily excited; calm: imperturbable composure.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • impracticable — not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means: an impracticable plan.
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
  • inappreciable — imperceptible; insignificant: an inappreciable difference.
  • inappreciably — In an inappreciable manner.
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • inexpressable — Not capable of being expressed.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • interceptable — Able to be intercepted.
  • interoperable — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • interoperably — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • interpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
  • irreplaceable — incapable of being replaced; unique: an irreplaceable vase.
  • irreplaceably — In an irreplaceable manner; (frequently) uniquely, singularly.
  • irrepleviable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
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