11-letter words containing b, p, m
- popmobility — a form of exercise that combines aerobics in a continuous dance routine, performed to pop music
- port number — port
- possibilism — the theory in geography that human behaviour, and therefore culture, is not merely determined by the environment but by human agency, as a theory it is directly opposed to determinism
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- pre-embargo — an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- 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.
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- preemptible — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system
- programable — capable of being programmed.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- publishment — publication.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pyramid bet — a set of bets on two or more horse races or other sporting events in which the stake and winnings from the first bet automatically become the stake in the next bet, and so on as long as each bet wins.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- septembrist — a person who instigated or took part in the September Massacre.
- spring lamb — a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.
- stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subemployed — of or relating to workers affected by subemployment
- submultiple — a number that is contained by another number an integral number of times without a remainder: The number 3 is a submultiple of 12.
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
- swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
- tempolabile — changing irregularly with time
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
- tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- unpermeable — capable of being permeated.
- vampire bat — any of several New World tropical bats of the genera Desmodus, Diphylla, and Diaemus, the size of a small mouse, feeding on small amounts of blood obtained from resting mammals and birds by means of a shallow cut made with specialized incisor teeth.
- with a bump — If someone comes down to earth with a bump, they suddenly start recognizing unpleasant facts after a period of time when they have not been doing this.
- wobble pump — an auxiliary hand pump for supplying fuel to the carburetor of an aircraft engine when the automatic pumping mechanism fails.
- y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits