11-letter words containing b, e, l, a, p
- paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
- paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
- parablepsis — abnormal vision
- parableptic — relating to parablepsis
- parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
- passed ball — a pitched ball that the catcher can reasonably be expected to catch but misses, resulting in a base runner's or runners' advancing one or more bases or in the batter's reaching first base safely.
- peace lobby — a lobby for peace or the end of conflict
- peach melba — a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.
- pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
- peche melba — peach Melba.
- penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
- pencil beam — a cone-shaped radar beam.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- pensionable — worker: of retirement age
- 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.
- perturbable — 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.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- plane table — a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly
- plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
- plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
- play by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
- plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- plebeianize — to make popular or vulgar
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- 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.
- possessable — capable of being possessed
- potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- practicable — capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible: a practicable solution.
- 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.
- preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- preassembly — 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.