12-letter words containing p, i, n, e, b
- handicapable — (politically correct) disabled or handicapped.
- hebephreniac — a person suffering from hebephrenia
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hosepipe ban — a ban, due to water shortage, on using hosepipes to water the garden or wash cars
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- inacceptable — Unacceptable.
- inappeasable — unable to be soothed or appeased: inappeasable anger.
- inappellable — incapable of being appealed against, as a court decision; unchallengeable
- inapplicable — not applicable; unsuitable.
- incapable of — not allowing or admitting; not able to accept or experience
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incorporable — able to be incorporated.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- inexpansible — unable to be expanded
- inexplicable — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
- inexplicably — not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained.
- inexpugnable — incapable of being taken by force; impregnable; unconquerable.
- inexpungible — that cannot be expunged, erased, or obliterated; inextirpable.
- inextirpable — incapable of being extirpated: inextirpable disease.
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.
- insupposable — Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- interpolable — able to be interpolated, or suited to interpolation
- jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
- peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light