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13-letter words containing p, o, b

  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
  • peccatophobia — an abnormal fear of sinning.
  • pembrokeshire — a historic county in Dyfed, in SW Wales.
  • penobscot bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in S Maine. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • 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.
  • perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • 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.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • phony-baloney — nonsense; baloney.
  • photo-biology — the study of the effects of light on biological systems.
  • photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pilot balloon — a balloon for the visual observation of upper-atmosphere wind currents.
  • pilot biscuit — hardtack.
  • 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.
  • pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
  • play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
  • pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
  • polling booth — a booth in which voters cast their votes.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
  • polysyllabism — a polysyllabic style or the use of multisyllabic words
  • polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • potato beetle — a black and yellow leaf beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, originally of Colorado and neighboring states but now a common pest in all potato-growing regions of the U.S.
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • potbelly wood — a load of firewood, approximately half a cord, cut in lengths of 16 inches (40 cm) or less for use in a potbelly stove.
  • pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
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