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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
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