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13-letter words containing p, i, n, e, b

  • deception bed — any of various kinds of concealed or disguised beds designed in the 18th century.
  • dependability — software reliability
  • dien bien phu — a town in NW Vietnam: site of defeat of French forces by Vietminh 1954, bringing to an end the French rule of Indochina.
  • disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
  • expandability — (uncountable) The condition of being expandable.
  • expansibility — The condition of being expansible.
  • expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
  • ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
  • hypercinnabar — (mineral) A form of cinnabar that forms hexagonal crystals.
  • hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
  • implementable — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • inappreciable — imperceptible; insignificant: an inappreciable difference.
  • inappreciably — In an inappreciable manner.
  • incapableness — The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
  • incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incompossible — incompatible; mutually exclusive
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • indiscerpible — (obsolete) Not discerpible; inseparable.
  • indispensable — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indispensably — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indispensible — Misspelling of indispensable.
  • inexplainable — not explainable; incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
  • inexpressable — Not capable of being expressed.
  • inexpressible — not expressible; incapable of being uttered or described in words: a scene of inexpressible beauty.
  • inexpressibly — not expressible; incapable of being uttered or described in words: a scene of inexpressible beauty.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • insusceptible — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • interceptable — Able to be intercepted.
  • interoperable — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • interoperably — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • interpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
  • interruptible — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
  • irresponsible — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
  • irresponsibly — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
  • juniper berry — the berrylike cone of a juniper.
  • knobcone pine — a pine, Pinus attenuata, of the Pacific coast of the U.S., bearing cones with knoblike scales.
  • loblolly pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
  • loebner prize — (artificial intelligence)   An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Loebner of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test. Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer, Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich Capital Markets, Motorola, the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation. The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition. Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available.
  • manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
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