14-letter words containing p, o, b
- businesspeople — a person regularly employed in business, especially a white-collar worker, executive, or owner.
- businessperson — Businesspeople are people who work in business.
- butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- cabbage looper — the larva of a noctuid moth, Trichoplusia ni, common throughout the U.S. and Canada, that feeds on a wide variety of vegetable crops, especially cabbage and lettuce.
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- carbon capture — the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change
- carbon process — a photographic process for producing positive prints by exposing sensitized carbon tissue to light passing through a negative. Washing removes the unexposed gelatine leaving the pigmented image in the exposed insoluble gelatine
- carbonyl group — the bivalent radical CO, occurring in acids, ketones, aldehydes, and their derivatives.
- carboxyl group — functional group in organic acids
- carbro process — a process for making carbon or pigment prints on bromide paper without exposure to light.
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- chopping block — a thick wooden board used for chopping vegetables, meat etc on
- chopping board — A chopping board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
- claustrophobes — Plural form of claustrophobe.
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- claustrophobic — You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted.
- cobbler's pegs — a common Australian weed, Bidens pilosa, with spiky peglike awns
- collapsibility — (uncountable) The condition of being collapsible (or collapsable).
- compactibility — capable of being compacted: compactible rubbish.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compatibilists — Plural form of compatibilist.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- compossibility — the possibility of coexisting
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
- corporate bond — a bond issued by a corporation in order to increase its capital
- corruptibility — that can or might be corrupted.
- court cupboard — a wooden stand with two or three tiers, used in the 16th and 17th centuries to display pewter, silver, etc
- decompoundable — able to be broken down into its component parts
- deplorableness — The state or quality of being deplorable.
- developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
- diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
- disapprobation — disapproval; condemnation.
- disapprobatory — Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
- disposableness — Disposability.