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11-letter words containing a, r, p, o, b

  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • camp robber — Canada jay
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
  • carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • comportable — (obsolete) suitable; consistent.
  • comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
  • coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.
  • corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
  • crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
  • cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
  • erotophobia — an abnormal fear of sexuality
  • fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
  • francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
  • germaphobia — Pathological fear of germs.
  • germaphobic — Alternative form of germophobic.
  • gopher ball — a pitched ball hit for a home run: leading the league in gopher balls.
  • hierophobia — an irrational fear of sacred objects or people
  • hydrophobia — rabies.
  • hyperboreal — Hyperborean.
  • hyperborean — Classical Mythology. one of a people supposed to live in a land of perpetual sunshine and abundance beyond the north wind.
  • improbation — the act of disapproving or objecting to something
  • labor pains — childbirth: contractions
  • labor party — one of the chief political parties of Australia, generally supporting the interests of organized labour
  • labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
  • lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
  • lump labour — work done by self-employed workers in the building trade
  • meprobamate — a white powder, C 9 H 1 8 N 2 O 4 , used in medicine chiefly as a tranquilizer for treating anxiety, tension, and skeletal muscle spasm.
  • necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
  • negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
  • obtemperate — (obsolete) To obey.
  • opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
  • operability — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
  • pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
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