14-letter words containing s, l, o, p, b
- football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
- hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
- hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
- hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
- impossibleness — Quality of being impossible.
- impressionable — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- impressionably — In an impressionable manner.
- incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- irresponsibles — Plural form of irresponsible.
- leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- non-respirable — capable of being respired.
- noncompensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
- obstreperously — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- palaebiologist — a person who studies or is an expert in palaebiology
- paleobiologist — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- pardonableness — the quality or state of being pardonable
- peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
- phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- plumbous oxide — litharge.
- pneumobacillus — a bacterium, Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing a type of pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, especially of the respiratory tract.
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- probabiliorism — the theory that in the case of doubt one should choose the action most likely to be right
- probabiliorist — someone who advocates probabiliorism
- probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
- processability — capable of being processed.
- pseudo-liberal — favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
- public housing — housing owned or operated by a government and usually offered at low rent to the needy.
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- 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.
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
- streptobacilli — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.