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12-letter words containing n, a, p

  • at any price — If you want something at any price, you are determined to get it, even if unpleasant things happen as a result.
  • attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
  • autographing — Present participle of autograph.
  • autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
  • autohypnotic — Of or pertaining to autohypnosis; self-hypnotizing.
  • azathioprine — a synthetic drug that suppresses the normal immune responses of the body and is administered orally during and after organ transplantation and also in certain types of autoimmune disease. Formula: C9H7N7O2S
  • azophenylene — phenazine.
  • back-patting — an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.
  • backflipping — the process of reversing one's position
  • backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
  • badger plane — a plane for finishing rabbets or the like.
  • balance pipe — a pipe between two points used to equalize pressure
  • baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
  • banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
  • banana prawn — a prawn of the genus Penaeus, fished commercially in tropical waters of N Australia
  • banana split — A banana split is a kind of dessert. It consists of a banana cut in half along its length, with ice cream, nuts, and sauce on top.
  • band of hope — a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847
  • bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • barrow point — the northernmost tip of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • base pairing — the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule
  • base-pairing — the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs.
  • basing point — a geographical location from which freight charges are computed by the seller regardless of the point from which the goods are shipped.
  • bat printing — ornamenting of ceramics by means of an adhesive substance, as linseed oil, transferred onto the ceramic surface from a sheet of glue or gelatin, dusted with color, and fired.
  • bathing wrap — a loose robe to wear after bathing, often made of towelling
  • batten plate — (in structural design) a horizontal rectangular plate that is used to connect pairs of steel sections by being riveted or welded across them to form a composite section
  • bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
  • bearing pile — a foundation pile that supports weight vertically
  • beat up (on) — to give a beating to; thrash
  • belaying pin — a cylindrical, sometimes tapered pin, usually of metal or wood, that fits into a hole in a pin or fife rail: used for belaying
  • bell captain — a person in charge of a group of bellhops
  • benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
  • benzoapyrene — a carcinogenic chemical in tobacco smoke
  • bernese alps — a mountain range in SW Switzerland, the N central part of the Alps. Highest peak: Finsteraarhorn, 4274 m (14 022 ft)
  • bernina alps — a mountain group in SE Switzerland, extending from the Rhateian Alps on the Italian border. Highest peak, Piz Bernina, 13,304 feet (4055 meters).
  • bernina pass — a pass in the Alps between SE Switzerland and N Italy, east of Piz Bernina. Height: 2323 m (7622 ft)
  • betanaphthol — a colorless, crystalline isomer of naphthol, C10H8O, used as an antiseptic and parasiticide
  • bien pensant — a right-thinking person
  • biparentally — from a biparental point of view
  • bipropellant — a rocket propellant consisting of two substances, usually a fuel and an oxidizer
  • birth parent — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
  • black prince — Edward2 (Prince of Wales)
  • blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • blotting-pad — an object to one side of which a piece of blotting paper is attached for blotting text handwritten in ink
  • boating trip — a trip or holiday in a boat such as a sailing boat or canal boat
  • boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
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