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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
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