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13-letter words containing p, e, t, r, b

  • kennebunkport — a town in SW Maine: summer resort.
  • khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
  • lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
  • liberal party — a political party in Great Britain, formed about 1830 as a fusion of Whigs and Radicals and constituting one of the dominant British parties in the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries.
  • liberty party — the first antislavery political party, organized in 1839 and merged with the Free Soil party in 1848.
  • library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
  • library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
  • mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
  • methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
  • moebius strip — Möbius strip
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
  • nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • open brethren — one of the two main divisions of the Plymouth Brethren that, in contrast to the Exclusive Brethren, permits contacts with members outside the sect
  • open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • parietal bone — either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.
  • parietal lobe — the middle part of each cerebral hemisphere behind the central sulcus.
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • particle beam — Physics. a concentrated stream of particles, as electrons, neutrons, or protons, generated for studying particle interactions, nuclear structure, crystal structure, etc.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
  • pebble heater — a heat exchanger utilizing refractory pellets to store and give off heat.
  • pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • pre-celebrate — to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate the success of a new play.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
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