16-letter words containing p, e, t, a, b, l
- 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.
- 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.
- outboard profile — an exterior side elevation of a vessel, showing all deck structures, rigging, fittings, etc.
- paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
- personal liberty — the liberty of an individual to do his or her will freely except for those restraints imposed by law to safeguard the physical, moral, political, and economic welfare of others.
- pigs in blankets — small frankfurters wrapped in dough and baked, served as an appetizer
- planetary nebula — an expanding shell of thin ionized gas that is ejected from and surrounds a hot, dying star of about the same mass as the sun; the gas absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the central star and reemits it as visible light by the process of fluorescence.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- pocket billiards — pool2 (def 1).
- police constable — police officer
- portable airtime — (communications, wireless) A wireless, digital communications system enabling user-to-user voice communication, "quicknotes", and alphanumeric messaging.
- post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- 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
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- republican party — one of the two major political parties in the U.S.: originated 1854–56.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- spectacled cobra — Indian cobra.
- stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
- unpredictability — not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold: an unpredictable occurrence.
- vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).