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11-letter words containing b, c, p

  • black japan — a black bituminous varnish
  • black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
  • black stump — a long way off
  • blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
  • block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
  • body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
  • bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • 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.
  • brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • camp robber — Canada jay
  • campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • capstan bar — a lever, often wooden, for turning a capstan
  • carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
  • 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
  • catabaptist — a person who is opposed to baptism.
  • cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
  • 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.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
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