13-letter words containing p, r, b
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- byte compiler — byte-code compiler
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
- carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
- carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
- carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
- carpenter bee — any large solitary bee of the genus Xylocopa and related genera that lays its eggs in tunnels bored into wood or in plant stems: family Apidae
- carpet beetle — any of various beetles of the genus Anthrenus, the larvae of which feed on carpets, furnishing fabrics, etc: family Dermestidae
- carpetbaggers — U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
- carpetbaggery — the practice of being a carpetbagger
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- chamber opera — an opera requiring few performers and a small orchestra.
- chlorophyll-b — the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form, C 55 H 72 MgN 4 O 5 (chlorophyll a) and a dark-green form, C 55 H 70 MgN 4 O 6 (chlorophyll b)
- clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
- deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
- double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
- doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- durable press — permanent press.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- exportability — The property of being exportable.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
- graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.