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12-letter words containing p, a, b

  • back-patting — an act or instance of offering praise or congratulation: The winners indulged in a certain amount of mutual back-patting.
  • back-slapper — the practice of making a loud and effusive display of friendliness, cordiality, etc., as by slapping persons on the back.
  • back-stopped — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • backflipping — the process of reversing one's position
  • backpedaling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backpedalled — (AU, NZ, British) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
  • backpressure — a resistant pressure exerted by liquid or gas against the forward motion or flow of an exhaust or pipe system: Careful control of backpressure ensures an even supply of oil from the well.
  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backsplashes — Plural form of backsplash.
  • backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
  • bad-tempered — Someone who is bad-tempered is not very cheerful and gets angry easily.
  • baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
  • badger plane — a plane for finishing rabbets or the like.
  • baffle plate — a plate or mechanical device designed to restrain or regulate the flow of a fluid, the emission of light or sound, or the distribution of sound, esp in a loudspeaker or microphone
  • baffle-plate — a plate used as a baffle.
  • baked potato — a large potato baked in its skin
  • balance pipe — a pipe between two points used to equalize pressure
  • bald cypress — a tree, Taxodium distichum, of swampy areas of the southern U.S., having featherlike needles and cone-shaped projections growing up from the roots, yielding a hardwood used in construction, shipbuilding, etc.
  • baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
  • ballad opera — an opera consisting of popular tunes to which appropriate words have been set, interspersed with spoken dialogue
  • ballot paper — A ballot paper is a piece of paper on which you indicate your choice or opinion in an election or ballot.
  • balsam apple — an ornamental cucurbitaceous vine, Momordica balsamina, of the Old World tropics, with yellow flowers and orange egg-shaped fruits
  • banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
  • banana prawn — a prawn of the genus Penaeus, fished commercially in tropical waters of N Australia
  • banana split — A banana split is a kind of dessert. It consists of a banana cut in half along its length, with ice cream, nuts, and sauce on top.
  • band of hope — a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847
  • bank deposit — money placed in a bank account
  • bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
  • baptisteries — Plural form of baptistery.
  • barbecue pit — a trench in which wood or charcoal is burned for barbecuing
  • barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
  • barophoresis — the diffusion of suspended particles at a rate dependent on external forces
  • baroreceptor — a collection of sensory nerve endings, principally in the carotid sinuses and the aortic arch, that monitor blood pressure changes in the body
  • barrow point — the northernmost tip of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean
  • base jumping — a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc
  • base pairing — the hydrogen bonding that occurs between complementary nitrogenous bases in the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule
  • base-pairing — the process of binding separate DNA sequences by base pairs.
  • baseball cap — A baseball cap is a close-fitting cap with a curved part at the front that sticks out above your eyes.
  • basidiocarps — Plural form of basidiocarp.
  • basidiospore — one of the spores, usually four in number, produced in a basidium
  • basing point — a geographical location from which freight charges are computed by the seller regardless of the point from which the goods are shipped.
  • basses-alpes — former name of Alpes-de-Haute Provence.
  • bat printing — ornamenting of ceramics by means of an adhesive substance, as linseed oil, transferred onto the ceramic surface from a sheet of glue or gelatin, dusted with color, and fired.
  • bathing wrap — a loose robe to wear after bathing, often made of towelling
  • bathmophobia — The fear of stairs and slopes.
  • bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
  • bathygraphic — of or relating to the depths of the ocean
  • bathypelagic — of, relating to, or inhabiting the lower depths of the ocean between approximately 1000 and 4000 metres
  • bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
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