12-letter words containing p, b, m
- cusip number — A CUSIP number is a number that identifies an individual security like a stock or a bond.
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- garbage dump — rubbish tip, place where refuse is disposed of
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- impost block — dosseret.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- imputability — The character of being imputable.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompatibly — In an incompatible manner.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- islamophobia — Alternative capitalization of Islamophobia.
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lobular pump — a blower or pump displacing air or liquid by means of rotors having meshing lobes that act as a seal at their place of mesh.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
- make-up base — a primer of make-up applied to the face in order to prepare it for the main layer of make-up
- maple butter — thickened maple syrup
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- misprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
- multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.