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12-letter words containing p, a, b, o

  • peabody bird — the white-throated sparrow.
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • peroxyborate — perborate.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
  • phlebography — venography.
  • photolyzable — able to undergo photolysis
  • piano nobile — the principal story of a large building, as of a palace or villa.
  • 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.
  • pipe tobacco — tobacco suitable for use in a tobacco pipe
  • plasterboard — a material used for insulating or covering walls, or as a lath, consisting of paper-covered sheets of gypsum and felt.
  • plastic bomb — a bomb made of plastic explosive.
  • 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.
  • plumbaginous — containing graphite.
  • plymouth bay — a small, well-protected bay on the coast of Massachusetts; the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers.
  • polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
  • polysyllabic — consisting of several, especially four or more, syllables, as a word.
  • polysyllable — a polysyllabic word.
  • poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
  • postabortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
  • postbiblical — occurring after the events written about in the Bible, occurring after the Bible was written
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • 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.
  • probationary — the act of testing.
  • problem area — a place that is prone to a particular problem or danger, such as flooding or road-traffic accidents
  • problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
  • problematize — to demonstrate to be unsettled or uncertain, or more complex than originally assumed or regarded; show to be problematic
  • proboscidate — having a proboscis.
  • proboscidean — pertaining to or resembling a proboscis.
  • procarbazine — a drug used in the treatment of cancer, esp lymphomas
  • programmable — capable of being programmed.
  • proscribable — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
  • protuberancy — protuberance.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • 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.
  • psychobabble — writing or talk using jargon from psychiatry or psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.
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