14-letter words containing p, a, r, b, l
- nonpredictable — Not predictable.
- paper mulberry — a mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera, of eastern Asia, having alternate leaves that vary in size, round catkins, and orange-red fruit, grown widely as a shade tree.
- parabiotically — in a parabiotic manner
- pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
- particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- pebble-leather — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
- pedal keyboard — pedal (def 3a).
- pembroke table — a drop-leaf table with fly rails and with a drawer at one end or each end of the skirt.
- penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- periodic table — a table illustrating the periodic system, in which the chemical elements, formerly arranged in the order of their atomic weights and now according to their atomic numbers, are shown in related groups.
- persian blinds — persiennes
- perturbational — relating to perturbation
- phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
- piecrust table — a table having a top, usually round, with a raised and intricately carved edge.
- pipeline break — (architecture) (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
- planning board — development group
- play it by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleasurability — the characteristic of being pleasurable
- plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- plumber's mate — a person who helps a plumber do his or her job
- polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
- port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- practicability — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- predictability — consistent repetition of a state, course of action, behavior, or the like, making it possible to know in advance what to expect: The predictability of their daily lives was both comforting and boring.
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
- probabiliorist — someone who advocates probabiliorism
- probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
- probable error — a quantity formerly used as a measure of variability: equal to 0.6745 times the standard deviation. A normally distributed population has half of its elements within one probable error of the mean.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
- protectability — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
- public library — a nonprofit library established for the use of the general public and maintained chiefly by public funds.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.