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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.
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