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

  • carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
  • carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
  • 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.
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • 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).
  • ibrahim pasha — 1789–1848, Egyptian general: governor of Syria 1833–40 (son of Mehemet Ali).
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • inexpressable — Not capable of being expressed.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • labour supply — the total number of hours that workers are willing and able to be paid wages to work for
  • librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
  • nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • onus probandi — the burden of proof.
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • ora pro nobis — a Latin invocation meaning pray for us
  • 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.
  • pandora's box — a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration.
  • 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.
  • paraphrasable — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parasymbiosis — the symbiotic relationship that occurs between certain species of fungi and lichens (which are themselves symbiotic associations between a fungus and an alga)
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parrot's-bill — a showy, vinelike plant, Clianthus puniceus, of New Zealand, having clusters of eight white-streaked, crimson flowers.
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
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