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8-letter words containing p, a, b

  • parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
  • parabole — a simile
  • parbreak — to spew or vomit (up or out)
  • parnaiba — a seaport in NE Brazil.
  • parsable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
  • partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
  • passable — capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream.
  • passably — fairly; moderately: a passably good novel.
  • passband — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
  • passbook — a bankbook.
  • passerby — a person passing by.
  • passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
  • path lab — pathology laboratory
  • pawnable — able to be pawned
  • pay back — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
  • pay-stub — a document attached to or accompanying a paycheck as a record of gross earnings and deductions.
  • payables — debts to be paid
  • pb cache — Pipeline Burst Cache
  • pb&j — peanut butter and jelly (sandwich)
  • pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
  • pea bean — a variety of kidney bean having a small, white seed, used dried for food.
  • pea crab — any of several tiny crabs of the family Pinnotheridae, the female of which lives as a commensal in the shells of bivalve mollusks.
  • peaberry — a single seed coffee berry; a round coffee bean
  • peat bog — a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
  • peccable — liable to sin or error.
  • peekaboo — Also called bo-peep. a game played by or with very young children, typically in which one covers the face or hides and then suddenly uncovers the face or reappears, calling “Peekaboo!”.
  • peelable — to strip (something) of its skin, rind, bark, etc.: to peel an orange.
  • pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
  • penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
  • perborax — sodium perborate.
  • petabyte — 2 50 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.
  • pettable — having the capability to be petted
  • philabeg — filibeg.
  • pin-ball — 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.
  • pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
  • pintable — a pinball machine
  • pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
  • pitiable — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
  • pitiably — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
  • placable — capable of being placated, pacified, or appeased; forgiving.
  • platband — a flat structural member, as a lintel or flat arch.
  • play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
  • playable — capable of or suitable for being played.
  • playback — the act of reproducing a sound or video recording, especially in order to check a recording that is newly made.
  • playbill — a program or announcement of a play.
  • playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
  • plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
  • plumbago — graphite.
  • plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
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