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14-letter words containing b, a, g, p

  • greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
  • impregnability — strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable: an impregnable fort.
  • interblock gap — the area or space separating consecutive blocks of data or consecutive physical records on an external storage medium.
  • louangphrabang — a city in N Laos, on the Mekong River: former royal capital.
  • microbarograph — a barograph for recording minute fluctuations of atmospheric pressure.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • napalm bombing — the act of attacking with napalm bombs
  • object program — a computer program translated from the equivalent source program into machine language by the compiler or assembler
  • opening gambit — a preliminary or opening tactic
  • 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.
  • partridgeberry — a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.
  • pay bargaining — negotiating concerning salary or pay
  • paying-in book — a book for keeping a record of money deposited into an account
  • pebble glasses — spectacles with round thick lenses with a high degree of magnification
  • planning board — development group
  • plotting board — Navigation. a transparent table on a ship, used as a plotting sheet.
  • porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
  • progress board — a department of an organization, company, etc, that oversees and ensures progress, advance or development
  • public gallery — the gallery in a chamber of Parliament reserved for members of the public who wish to listen to the proceedings
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • scribbling pad — a notebook or sketchbook
  • 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.
  • spitting cobra — any cobra or cobralike snake, especially the ringhals, that sprays venom at the eyes of approaching animals.
  • spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
  • 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
  • springboarding — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
  • unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
  • upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
  • urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
  • vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
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