12-letter words containing p, a, b
- blood plasma — the pale yellow fluid portion of the blood; blood from which red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed
- blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
- 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.
- bobbery pack — a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
- body repairs — repairs to the bodywork of cars
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- boobytrapped — to set with or as if with a booby trap; attach a booby trap to or in.
- booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
- boot-scraper — a contraption consisting of an upright metal shape formerly placed outside some houses to enable people to scrape the mud from their boots before going in
- bootleg play — a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.
- bottle party — a party to which guests bring drink
- brachycephal — a person with a brachycephalic head
- brachygraphy — shorthand; stenography
- bracket lamp — a wall light that is attached to the wall by a bracket
- brain-picker — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
- branch depot — one of a several depots receiving stock from the same central supplier
- branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
- branch point — Electricity. a point in an electric network at which three or more conductors meet.
- brass plaque — a brass plate screwed to a wall or other structure and engraved with a name or other information, esp to commemorate an important event
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- brenner pass — a pass over the E Alps, between Austria and Italy. Highest point: 1372 m (4501 ft)
- brevipennate — (of flightless birds) short-winged
- bridal party — the people who accompany the bride as she comes to her wedding
- bridge a gap — to remedy a deficiency
- bridge party — a gathering for the purpose of playing bridge
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
- broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
- bronchospasm — an abnormal contraction of the bronchi resulting in restriction of the airway
- buck private — a common soldier
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
- bypass ratio — the ratio of the amount of air that bypasses the combustion chambers of an aircraft gas turbine to that passing through them
- cabbage palm — a West Indian palm, Roystonea (or Oreodoxa) oleracea, whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage
- camber piece — a centering for a flat arch, slightly crowned to allow for settling of the arch.
- camp bastion — a large British military base in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in 2006
- camphor ball — mothball
- cancerphobia — an excessive fear of getting cancer
- capabilities — the quality of being capable; capacity; ability: His capability was unquestionable.
- cape buffalo — a large, black, nearly hairless, very fierce buffalo (Syncerus caffer) of South Africa, with horns joined at the bases to form a helmetlike structure
- cape cod bay — a part of Massachusetts Bay, enclosed by the Cape Cod peninsula.
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- captive-bred — bred in captivity