14-letter words containing p, l, a, n, b
- 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.
- pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
- pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
- pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
- penalty double — business double.
- penetrableness — the state of being penetrable; the capacity to be penetrated
- 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.
- phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
- 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.
- planning board — development group
- platinum black — a black powder consisting of very finely divided metallic platinum, used as a catalyst, especially in organic synthesis.
- platinum-blond — (of hair) of a pale silver-blond colour
- plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
- plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- prandtl number — the ratio of the fluid viscosity to the thermal conductivity of a substance, a low number indicating high convection.
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- proportionable — being in due proportion; proportional.
- public analyst — a scientist who tests food, water etc to ensure that they are safe
- public company — a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- 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.
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- telephone bank — an array of telephones used in large-scale telephoning operations, as for a political campaign.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
- unpalatability — the quality or state of being unpalatable
- unpassableness — the quality or condition of being unpassable
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased