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12-letter words containing b, p, d

  • paedobaptist — a person who baptizes infants
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • parole board — panel who evaluate prisoners for release
  • pastry board — a flat board on which pastry is rolled
  • payment bond — See under contract bond.
  • peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
  • peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
  • pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
  • peptide bond — a covalent bond formed by joining the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another, with the removal of a molecule of water.
  • pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
  • pig breeding — the act or process of getting pigs to reproduce
  • pigeon blood — dark red.
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
  • possessed by — spurred or moved by a strong feeling, madness, or a supernatural power (often followed by by, of, or with): The army fought as if possessed. The village believed her to be possessed of the devil.
  • poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • prayer beads — the beads of the rosary
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • preset board — a control board for setting up theatrical lighting switches and dimmer readings in advance so that during a performance the lights can be automatically operated for one or several scenes.
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
  • public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
  • pudding club — the state of being pregnant (esp in the phrase in the pudding club)
  • purblindness — the state of being purblind
  • reproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • rhabdosphere — a minute sphere made up of rhabdoliths
  • rubbish dump — a place or area where waste materials are dumped
  • scraperboard — scratchboard.
  • shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
  • shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • speedballing — the practice of taking cocaine and heroin together intravenously
  • speedboating — the act, practice, or sport of traveling in a speedboat.
  • spellbinding — to hold or bind by or as if by a spell; enchant; entrance; fascinate.
  • spider's web — a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
  • spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
  • spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
  • spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
  • spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
  • striped bass — an important American game fish, Morone saxatilis, having blackish stripes along each side.
  • subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
  • subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
  • support band — a band, pop group, rock group, etc not topping the bill
  • table tripod — a low mount or stand for a camera.
  • torpedo boat — a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.
  • torpedo tube — a tube through which a self-propelled torpedo is launched, usually by the explosion of a charge of powder.
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