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14-letter words containing p, a, t, e, n, b

  • occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
  • open to debate — If you say that a matter is open to debate, you mean that people have different opinions about it, or it has not yet been firmly decided.
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
  • pancake batter — batter made from eggs and flour and used to make thin flat cakes often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • penalty double — business double.
  • penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated
  • perturbational — relating to perturbation
  • 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.
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
  • serpent bearer — the constellation Ophiuchus.
  • specbase_int92 — A variant of SPECint92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • 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.
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
  • unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
  • unrecapturable — not able to be recaptured or brought back
  • unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
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