13-letter words containing p, a, r, b, l, e
- 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.
- 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.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
- hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
- 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.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
- liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.
- liberty party — the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.
- library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
- library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
- lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
- lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
- mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
- methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
- non-repayable — to pay back or refund, as money.
- non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- noncomparable — not comparable
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
- optical fiber — optical fibre
- optical fibre — (communications) (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
- 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.
- parallel bars — (used with a plural verb) a gymnasium apparatus consisting of two wooden bars on uprights, adjustable in height, and used for swinging, vaulting, balancing exercises, etc.