16-letter words containing p, e, a, c, b
- debut appearance — debut
- double occupancy — a type of travel accommodation, as in a hotel, for two persons sharing the same room: The rate is $35 per person, double occupancy, or $65, single occupancy.
- duplicate bridge — a form of contract bridge used in tournaments in which contestants play the identical series of deals, with each deal being scored independently, permitting individual scores to be compared.
- eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
- experience table — an actuarial table, esp a mortality table based on past statistics
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- gapless playback — audio or visual playback without any interruptions or silence between tracks or scenes
- hayes-compatible — (communications) A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
- imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
- inapplicableness — The state or quality of being inapplicable; inapplicability.
- incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
- inexplicableness — The state of being difficult to account for; the state of being inexplicable.
- irreplaceability — The quality of being irreplaceable; inability to be replaced; (frequently) uniqueness.
- khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
- knapsack problem — the problem of determining which numbers from a given collection of numbers have been added together to yield a specific sum: used in cryptography to encipher (and sometimes decipher) messages.
- library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
- lipstick lesbian — a lesbian who is feminine in manner or appearance; a femme.
- mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
- non-alphabetical — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
- objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
- onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
- paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
- peach tree borer — the larva of any of several clearwing moths, as Sanninoidea exitiosa, that bore into the wood of the peach and other drupaceous trees.
- performance bond — contract bond.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- police constable — police officer
- presence chamber — the special room in which a great personage, as a sovereign, receives guests, holds audiences, etc.
- public relations — (used with a plural verb) the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc.
- publication date — the date on which a book or periodical is or is planned to be published.
- publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
- rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
- republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
- republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
- schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
- showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
- superserviceable — overly disposed to be of service; officious.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- to pass the buck — If you pass the buck, you refuse to accept responsibility for something, and say that someone else is responsible.
- unaccomplishable — to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: to accomplish one's mission.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.