16-letter words containing p, i, l, o, t, b
- subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
- the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
- thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
- to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them