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

  • needle biopsy — the removal of a small amount of tissue or cellular material with a long hollow surgical needle, performed for diagnostic purposes.
  • non-imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
  • non-spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
  • nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
  • nonalphabetic — not employing alphabetic order
  • nonapplicable — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • noncompatible — Not compatible.
  • nondisposable — Not disposable.
  • nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
  • optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • 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.
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • 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.
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • 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.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
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