12-letter words containing b, a, n, s, p
- pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
- passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- persian lamb — the young lamb of the Karakul sheep.
- 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.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- postabortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
- presbyterian — pertaining to or based on the principle of ecclesiastical government by presbyters or presbyteries.
- proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- reabsorption — resorption (def 2).
- satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
- shopping bag — a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.
- sleeping bag — a warmly lined or padded body-length bag, usually waterproof and with a closure, in which one or two persons can sleep, especially outdoors, as when camping.
- snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
- speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
- speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
- spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
- spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
- spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spring break — a vacation from school or college during the spring term, lasting about a week.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- sublapsarian — infralapsarianism.
- subprincipal — an assistant or deputy principal.
- supercabinet — a specially-formed cabinet, a select or powerful group of political ministers (cabinet)
- support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
- transpirable — to occur; happen; take place.
- transponible — capable of being transposed.
- unappeasable — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
- unappeasably — in an unappeasable manner
- uncapsizable — (of a boat, etc) that cannot be capsized
- uncomposable — not fit for composition
- undisputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unperishable — imperishable
- unpersonable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unpunishable — not able to be punished
- unpunishably — in an unpunishable manner
- unrepulsable — not able to be repulsed or driven back
- unsplittable — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- unsupposable — not able to be supposed
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.