11-letter words containing b, e, l, p
- mumbletypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- nobel prize — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
- nonplayable — Not playable.
- numberplate — Alternative spelling of number plate.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- openability — The quality of being openable.
- operability — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- optimizable — Capable of being optimized.
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- paddle ball — a game similar to handball, but played with a short-handled, perforated paddle
- paddle boat — small boat with pedals
- 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.
- peel rubber — to accelerate an automobile very rapidly, as in a drag race
- 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.
- perceptible — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
- perceptibly — capable of being perceived; recognizable; appreciable: a perceptible change in his behavior.
- perfectible — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
- performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- perishables — perishable articles, esp food
- permissible — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
- permissibly — that can be permitted; allowable: a permissible amount of sentimentality under the circumstances; Such behavior is not permissible!
- 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.
- perturbedly — 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
- petrol bomb — Molotov cocktail.
- phlebectomy — the surgical excision of a vein or part of a vein
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.