8-letter words containing p, a, b
- bear paw — a type of small round snowshoe
- bear pit — a place, such as parliament or the stock market ,where there are a lot of aggressive, argumentative and competitive people
- beartrap — A large trap used to catch a bear, usually as a foot trap.
- beaucoup — a large amount, an abundance
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- becarpet — to lay carpet on
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bedplate — a heavy metal platform or frame to which an engine or machine is attached
- behappen — to befall
- bell lap — the final lap in a race of repeated circuits, signaled by the ringing of a bell.
- belmopan — (since 1973) the capital of Belize, about 50 miles inland: founded in 1970. Pop: 10 000 (2005 est)
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
- bethpage — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- bhatpara — a city in NE India, in West Bengal on the Hooghly River: jute and cotton mills. Pop: 441 956 (2001)
- bi-party — representing two distinct parties: a biparty investigating committee.
- bibimbap — a Korean dish of rice, sautéed and seasoned vegetables, and hot pepper paste
- biograph — a biographical summary
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biphasic — having two phases
- bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
- black op — Often, black ops. a secret mission or campaign carried out by a military, governmental, or other organization, typically one in which the organization conceals or denies its involvement: Some national intelligence agencies use black ops to undermine enemy governments. The company even resorted to an industrial black op to steal secrets from its competitor.
- blackcap — a brownish-grey Old World warbler, Sylvia atricapilla, the male of which has a black crown
- blacktop — Blacktop is a hard black substance which is used as a surface for roads.
- blowlamp — A blowlamp is a device which produces a hot flame, and is used to heat metal or remove old paint.
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bonampak — ancient Mayan site in Chiapas, S Mexico: discovered in 1946.
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainpan — the skull
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bratpack — a group of precocious and successful young actors, writers, etc
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- bus pass — a prepaid card allowing one to use buses
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypasser — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- campbell — Sir Colin, Baron Clyde. 1792–1863, British field marshal who relieved Lucknow for the second time (1857) and commanded in Oudh, suppressing the Indian Mutiny
- cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- capybara — the largest rodent: a pig-sized amphibious hystricomorph, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, resembling a guinea pig and inhabiting river banks in Central and South America: family Hydrochoeridae
- chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
- clapback — Lb music An exercise where the pupil is instructed to repeat a previously played rhythm by clapping.
- copiable — Alternative spelling of copyable.
- copyable — able to be copied