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9-letter words containing p, a, b

  • backplate — a plate of armour which guards the back
  • backprint — The mark or impression left by a person's back having been pressed against a surface.
  • backspace — to move a (typewriter carriage) backwards
  • backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
  • backstamp — a mark stamped on the back of an envelope by a post office to indicate the date and place of its arrival
  • backstops — Plural form of backstop.
  • backstrap — A pull strap extending the backstay of a boot or shoe.
  • backswept — slanting backwards
  • bad apple — a person with a corrupting influence
  • bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
  • bad place — Midland and Southern U.S. hell.
  • bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
  • bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
  • bakeapple — the fruit of the cloudberry
  • bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
  • baldpated — (archaic) Lacking hair on the head; bald.
  • balled up — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • ballparks — Plural form of ballpark.
  • ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
  • bandshape — (physics) The shape (distribution of strengths with frequency) of a band of electromagnetic radiation.
  • bang path — 1.   (communications)   An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2.   (operating system)   A shebang.
  • bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
  • baptisand — Alternative spelling of baptizand.
  • baptising — Present participle of baptise.
  • baptismal — Baptismal means relating to or connected with baptism.
  • baptistic — Of or for baptism; baptismal.
  • baptistry — a part of a Christian church in which baptisms are carried out
  • baptizand — A person about to submit to baptism.
  • baptizing — Present participle of baptize.
  • bar clamp — a clamp having two jaws attached to a bar, one fixed and the other adjustable by means of a screw mechanism.
  • bar graph — A bar graph is the same as a bar chart.
  • bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
  • bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
  • barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
  • barkeeper — A barkeeper is someone who serves drinks behind a bar.
  • barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
  • barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
  • baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
  • barotropy — a state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density do not intersect but are parallel.
  • barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
  • base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
  • base jump — a parachute jump from the top of a building, bridge, cliff, etc., usually at a height of 1,000 feet (305 meters) or less.
  • base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
  • base path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
  • baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
  • basipetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the apex downwards so that the youngest are at the base
  • basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
  • basophils — Plural form of basophil.
  • bath chap — the lower part of the cheek of a pig, cooked and eaten, usually cold
  • beach pea — either of two plants of the legume family, Lathyrus japonicus, of seashores of the North Temperate Zone, or L. littoralis, of the temperate western coast of North America, both having oblong leaves and clusters of pealike flowers.
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