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14-letter words containing b, a, p

  • baptismal name — Christian name (def 1).
  • baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
  • barbados pride — Also called bead tree. a tropical African and Asian tree, Adenanthera pavonina, of the legume family, having feathery foliage and bearing red seeds that are used in beadwork.
  • bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
  • bark chippings — small pieces of tree bark used chiefly for pathways in gardens or woodland
  • barometrograph — barograph.
  • base component — the system of rules in a transformational grammar that specify the deep structure of the language
  • bass saxophone — a large saxophone of low range, usually supported on a stand while being played.
  • basso profundo — (esp in operatic solo singing) a singer with a very deep bass voice
  • bathygraphical — (of a maps) representing the contours of the seabed
  • batrachophobia — fear of amphibians
  • batrachophobic — relating to the fear of toads and frogs
  • battery backup — A battery backup is a system in some power supplies that switches between a main power source and a battery.
  • bay psalm book — a translation of the Psalms by John Eliot and others: the first book published (1640) in America.
  • beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
  • beauty parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
  • beggar's opera — a ballad opera (1728) with text by John Gay and music arranged by John Pepusch.
  • benday process — a process for adding tone or shading, as in reproducing drawings, by the overlay on the plate of patterns, as of dots
  • benzodiazepine — any of a group of chemical compounds that are used as minor tranquillizers, such as diazepam (Valium) and chlordiazepoxide (Librium)
  • beta-endorphin — a potent endorphin released by the anterior pituitary gland in response to pain, trauma, exercise, or other forms of stress.
  • beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
  • beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
  • biceps brachii — See under biceps.
  • bicuspid valve — mitral valve
  • bidding prayer — the formal petitionary prayer, said especially in the Anglican Church immediately before the sermon.
  • binary package — (software)   An archive file that contains all files and directories that must be installed in order to make a working installation of the program(s) included in the package, and the maintainer scripts necessary for the installation. A binary package is usually specific to a certain platform, in contrast to a source package.
  • bipartisanship — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
  • bipolarisation — the act of bipolarising
  • bipolarization — the action of rendering something bipolar
  • birthday party — a party to celebrate someone's birthday
  • bisphosphonate — any drug of a class that inhibits the resorption of bone; used in treating certain bone disorders, esp osteoporosis
  • bitmap display — (hardware)   A computer output device where each pixel displayed on the monitor screen corresponds directly to one or more bits in the computer's video memory. Such a display can be updated extremely rapidly since changing a pixel involves only a single processor write to memory compared with a terminal or VDU connected via a serial line where the speed of the serial line limits the speed at which the display can be changed. Most modern personal computers and workstations have bitmap displays, allowing the efficient use of graphical user interfaces, interactive graphics and a choice of on-screen fonts. Some more expensive systems still delegate graphics operations to dedicated hardware such as graphics accelerators. The bitmap display might be traced back to the earliest days of computing when the Manchester University Mark I(?) computer, developed by F.C. Williams and T. Kilburn shortly after the Second World War. This used a storage tube as its working memory. Phosphor dots were used to store single bits of data which could be read by the user and interpreted as binary numbers.
  • black panthers — (in the US) a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end the political dominance of White people
  • black skipjack — a small spotted tuna, Euthynnus yaito, of Indo-Pacific seas
  • black-eyed pea — Black-eyed peas are beige seeds with black marks that are eaten as a vegetable. They are from a plant called the cowpea.
  • blacktip shark — a widely distributed sand shark, Charcharinus limbatus, having fins that appear to have been dipped in ink, inhabiting shallow waters of warm seas.
  • blaxploitation — a genre of films featuring Black stereotypes
  • blepharoplasty — cosmetic surgery performed on the eyelid
  • bletchley park — the Buckinghamshire estate which was the centre of British code-breaking operations during World War II
  • blind stamping — an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf
  • blister-packed — presented in a blister pack
  • block capitals — Block capitals are simple capital letters that are not decorated in any way.
  • block sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical literary analysis by random selection of a starting point and consideration of the continuous passage following it
  • blood platelet — any of the minute, disklike, colorless elements of the blood that are essential for normal clotting
  • blotting paper — Blotting paper is thick soft paper that you use for soaking up and drying ink on a piece of paper.
  • boarding party — group of officers or sailors who board a ship
  • body corporate — a group of persons incorporated to carry out a specific enterprise
  • bone porcelain — bone china.
  • boon companion — a close and constant friend
  • bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
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