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11-letter words containing b, e, p

  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • 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
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
  • bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
  • bungee jump — a jump made by someone from a high bridge, building, etc, secured only by a rubber cord attached to the ankles
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • 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).
  • carbapenems — Plural form of carbapenem.
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
  • 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
  • chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
  • collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
  • collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
  • compactable — Capable of being compacted.
  • compactible — able to be made compact
  • companiable — sociable
  • compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
  • compellable — (of a witness) able to be made to attend court or testify.
  • compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
  • completable — able to be completed
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