9-letter words containing a, p, b
- plausible — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- plausibly — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- play-bill — a program or announcement of a play.
- pleadable — capable of being pleaded, as a case in court.
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- pluggable — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- poachable — able to be poached
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
- pole bean — any vinelike variety of bean that is trained to grow upright on a pole, trellis, fence, etc.
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- porbandar — a seaport in SW Gujarat, in W India.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- post-boat — mailboat.
- potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
- powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- preambled — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- prebattle — existing, occurring or carried out in the period before a battle
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- predebate — occurring or produced before a given debate; of or pertaining to the period leading up to a given debate
- prefabbed — prefabricated.
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- pressable — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- preverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- print bar — a mechanism in a printer that has the template of characters to be printed.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- pro-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- probation — the act of testing.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- psalmbook — a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- puff-ball — any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- push back — force to retreat