12-letter words containing a, b, e, r
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pearl barley — barley milled into small, round grains, used in cooking, especially in soups.
- 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.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- pereira bark — the bark of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Geissospermum, of the dogbane family, especially that of G. vellosii, used in Brazil to allay fever.
- permeability — the property or state of being permeable.
- peroxyborate — perborate.
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- perturbative — having a tendency to perturb; disturbing.
- 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.
- phlebography — venography.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- plea bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- plea-bargain — to engage in plea bargaining.
- port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
- port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
- poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- prayer beads — the beads of the rosary
- pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- presbyterate — the office of a presbyter or elder.
- presbyterial — of or relating to a presbytery.
- presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
- prescribable — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- preset board — a control board for setting up theatrical lighting switches and dimmer readings in advance so that during a performance the lights can be automatically operated for one or several scenes.
- press bureau — an organization or a department whose function is press-agentry.
- primary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
- private bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the private interests of a particular individual, corporation, or local unit.
- problem area — a place that is prone to a particular problem or danger, such as flooding or road-traffic accidents
- problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
- problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
- problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
- proboscidate — having a proboscis.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- procarbazine — a drug used in the treatment of cancer, esp lymphomas
- programmable — capable of being programmed.
- proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.