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13-letter words containing p, e, a, b

  • companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
  • culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
  • dependability — software reliability
  • deployability — Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
  • despicability — Despicableness.
  • disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • double paddle — a paddle with a blade at each end, as that of the kayak.
  • 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.
  • employability — (uncountable) The state or quality of being employable.
  • encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.
  • erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
  • exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
  • expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
  • expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
  • expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
  • explicability — The state of being explicable.
  • exportability — The property of being exportable.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • 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.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • 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.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
  • heptasyllable — a word or line of verse of seven syllables.
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
  • hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
  • 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).
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