12-letter words containing b, e, o, p
- kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
- liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
- line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
- marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
- mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
- multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
- nobel prizes — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- non-operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.
- nonrepayable — that does not need to be or cannot be repaid
- note payable — A note payable is a written legal obligation to repay an amount of borrowed money at a particular future date.
- number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
- numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
- nuxi problem — (data, architecture) /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
- obcompressed — compressed or flattened in a way opposite to the usual, as back to front instead of side to side.
- obreptitious — having the characteristics of acquiring something by deceitful means
- observership — someone or something that observes.
- obstreperate — to be extremely noisy or to create a resounding din
- obstreperous — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
- ombudsperson — ombudsman (def 2).
- opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
- paedobaptism — the baptism of infants
- paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
- palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
- palaeobotany — the study of fossil plants
- paleobiology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
- parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
- pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- payment bond — See under contract bond.
- peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
- pension book — In Britain, a pension book is a small book which is given to pensioners by the government. Each week, one page can be exchanged for money at a Post Office.
- peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- peroxyborate — perborate.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
- phlebography — venography.