8-letter words containing p, a, b
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- pollable — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pop band — a band, consisting of guitars, drums and sometimes other instruments, which plays pop music
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
- post-bag — mailbag.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- pottable — (of a snooker ball) able to be potted
- pourable — able to be poured
- pplambda — (language) essentially the first-order predicate calculus superposed upon the simply-typed polymorphic lambda-calculus. PPLambda is the object language for LCF.
- pre-bake — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
- preamble — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- prizable — of worth
- probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
- probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.
- prolabor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- provable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- provably — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- prunable — Archaic. to preen.
- pub date — publication date.
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
- puffball — any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
- pull tab — a metal tab or ring that is pulled to uncover the precut opening in a can or other container.
- pullback — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- put back — postpone
- rapeable — unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.
- rippable — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
- ropeable — ropable.
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- saprobic — saprophyte.
- slab top — a top, as to a table, formed from a slab of marble or the like.
- snapback — a sudden rebound or recovery.
- soap-box — Also, soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.
- soapbark — a Chilean tree, Quillaja saponaria, of the rose family, having evergreen leaves and small, white flowers.
- spa bath — whirlpool, jacuzzi, hot tub
- spacelab — a manned laboratory in space, developed by the European Space Agency, carried aboard an orbiting space shuttle.
- sparable — a small nail with no head, used for fixing the soles and heels of shoes
- sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
- spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding