7-letter words containing p, a, b
- by-play — secondary action or talking carried on apart while the main action proceeds, esp in a play
- byplace — a private place
- cap jib — a jib set on a stay to a bowsprit cap.
- capable — If a person or thing is capable of doing something, they have the ability to do it.
- capably — having power and ability; efficient; competent: a capable instructor.
- copaiba — a transparent yellowish viscous oleoresin obtained from certain tropical South American trees of the leguminous genus Copaifera: used in varnishes and ointments
- dupable — a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull.
- hepsiba — the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh. II Kings 21:1.
- hip bag — a bag worn around or attached to the hips
- hubcaps — Plural form of hubcap.
- mob-cap — a soft cloth cap with a full crown, fitting down over the ears and frequently tying beneath the chin, formerly worn indoors by women.
- mobcaps — Plural form of mobcap.
- pabular — relating to pabulum
- pabulum — something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- pacable — easily appeased
- pageboy — a hair style in which the hair is rolled under, usually at shoulder-length.
- palabra — a word.
- panjabi — a native or inhabitant of the Punjab.
- papable — suitable or likely to become pope.
- paraben — any ester of parahydroxybenzoic acid, some of which are used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and have been found in breast cancer tumours
- parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
- paraiba — a state in E Brazil. 21,760 sq. mi. (56,360 sq. km). Capital: João Pessoa.
- parbake — to partially bake
- parboil — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- pass by — go past
- patball — a game involving hitting a ball back and forth between two or more players but at a leisurely, and usually non-strenuous, pace
- patible — endurable; sufferable; tolerable
- paxiuba — a tropical South American palm tree, Iriartea exorrhiza
- payable — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
- payably — profitably
- payback — the period of time required to recoup a capital investment.
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- peabody — Elizabeth Palmer, 1804–94, U.S. educator and reformer: founded the first kindergarten in the U.S.
- pedicab — (especially in Southeast Asia) a three-wheeled public conveyance operated by pedals, typically one having a hooded cab for two passengers mounted behind the driver.
- pembina — highbush cranberry.
- phablet — a mobile device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet computer and is larger than a typical smartphone but not as large as a typical small tablet.
- picabia — Francis. 1879–1953, French painter, designer, and writer, associated with the cubist, Dadaist, and surrealist movements
- piebald — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- pigboat — a submarine.
- pinball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
- placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
- playboy — a man who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- playbus — a mobile playground
- pliable — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
- pnambic — (jargon) /p*-nam'bik/ (From the scene in the film, "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"). A term coined by Daniel Klein <[email protected]> for a stage of development of a process or function that, owing to incomplete implementation or to the complexity of the system, requires human interaction to simulate or replace some or all of its actions, inputs or outputs. The term may also be applied to a process or function whose apparent operations are wholly or partially falsified or one requiring prestidigitization. The ultimate pnambic product was "Dan Bricklin's Demo", a program which supported flashy user-interface design prototyping. There is a related maxim among hackers: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." See magic for illumination of this point.
- poblano — a dark-green, mild or slightly pungent chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum used in cooking.
- pokable — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- posable — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- postbag — mailbag.
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.