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

  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
  • marsupial bone — epipubis.
  • napier's bones — a form of multiplication table originally marked on sticks of bone or ivory that could be rearranged to carry out the operations of multiplication or division.
  • nip in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
  • non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • non-applicable — applying or capable of being applied; relevant; suitable; appropriate: an applicable rule; a solution that is applicable to the problem.
  • non-compatible — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • non-repairable — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • non-respirable — capable of being respired.
  • nonpolarizable — not able to be polarized
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • occipital bone — a curved, compound bone forming the back and part of the base of the skull.
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • painted beauty — a butterfly, Vanessa virginiensis, having brownish-black and orange wings, the hind wings each having two eyespots.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
  • pembroke pines — a city in SE Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.
  • persian blinds — persiennes
  • perturbational — relating to perturbation
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • phenobarbitone — 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.
  • phenylcarbinol — benzyl alcohol.
  • pipeline break — (architecture)   (Or "pipeline stall") The delay caused on a processor using pipelines when a transfer of control is taken. Normally when a control-transfer instruction (a branch, conditional branch, call or trap) is taken, any following instructions which have been loaded into the processor's pipeline must be discarded or "flushed" and new instructions loaded from the branch destination. This introduces a delay before the processor can resume execution. "Delayed control-transfer" is a technique used to reduce this effect.
  • pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
  • point the bone — to wish bad luck (on)
  • pontoon bridge — a bridge supported by pontoons.
  • poppaea sabina — died a.d. 65? second wife of the Roman emperor Nero.
  • postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
  • presentability — that may be presented.
  • press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
  • pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
  • proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
  • specbase_int92 — A variant of SPECint92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • special branch — The Special Branch is the department of the British police that is concerned with political security and deals with things such as terrorism and visits by foreign leaders.
  • spellbindingly — in a spellbinding manner
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
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