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12-letter words containing b, a, r, p, e

  • number opera — an opera in which the arias, ensembles, recitatives, and other sections are clearly separated from one another.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • obstreperate — to be extremely noisy or to create a resounding din
  • opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
  • pain barrier — If you say that a sports player has gone through the pain barrier, you mean that he or she is continuing to make a great effort in spite of being injured or exhausted.
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • paleoliberal — a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
  • palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
  • pan scrubber — a rough sponge, often made of steel wool, used for scrubbing saucepans, frying pans, etc
  • panel beater — a person who beats out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
  • participable — capable of being shared.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • pattern book — collection of textile motifs or designs
  • peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
  • 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.
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