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

  • partibility — the quality of being partible
  • passer-byes — a person passing by.
  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
  • patrol boat — a boat designed to patrol a coastal area, etc for security, observation and defence
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • pease-brose — brose made from a meal of dried peas
  • perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perceivable — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • perishables — perishable articles, esp food
  • perpetrable — able to be perpetrated
  • perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
  • perspirable — having the ability to perspire
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
  • perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
  • pine barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
  • pine-barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
  • pitta bread — a flat rounded slightly leavened bread, originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket, which can be filled with food
  • piz bernina — a mountain in SE Switzerland, the highest peak of the Bernina Alps in the S Rhaetian Alps. Height: 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • play by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • polar orbit — a spacecraft orbit that passes over, or close to, the geographic poles of the earth or some other celestial body.
  • polarizable — to cause polarization in.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
  • pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
  • port talbot — a port in SE Wales, in Neath Port Talbot county borough on Swansea Bay: established as a coal port in the mid-19th century; large steelworks; ore terminal. Pop: 35 633 (2001)
  • portability — the state or quality of being portable.
  • postorbital — located behind the orbit or socket of the eye.
  • pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
  • power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • powerboater — a powerboat owner or operator.
  • practicable — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
  • prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
  • pre-algebra — the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
  • pre-bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
  • pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
  • preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
  • preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
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