9-letter words containing p, a, b
- paper bag — a carrier bag made from paper, for holding purchases, etc
- paperback — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paperbark — cajeput.
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- para-bola — 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.
- parabasis — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parabrake — parachute brake.
- paranaiba — a river in W Minas Gerais, S central Brazil, flowing W and joining the Rio Grande to form the Paraná River. 500 miles (805 km) long.
- parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- pasodoble — fast modern ballroom dance
- pass band — the range of frequencies that pass with a minimum of attenuation through an electronic filter.
- passer-by — a person passing by.
- passersby — a person passing by.
- pay board — a former government agency that controlled prices and wages
- pay cable — cable television.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- pea-brain — a foolish or unintelligent person
- peaceable — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- peaceably — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- pebbleman — DoD requirements that led to APSE. They were written in Jul 1978 and revised Jan 1979.
- pedal bin — A pedal bin is a container for waste, usually in a kitchen or bathroom. It has a lid which is controlled by a pedal that you press with your foot.
- pedalboat — a boat that is propelled by operating the pedals, usually one hired for pleasure
- pen-based — (of a computer) having an electronic stylus rather than a keyboard as the primary input device.
- penumbral — 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).
- perborate — a salt of perboric acid, as sodium perborate, NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used for bleaching, disinfecting, etc.
- perceable — pierceable
- perfboard — hardboard with perforations into which pegs or hooks can be inserted for hanging or displaying objects.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- permabear — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will fall
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- piano bar — a cocktail lounge featuring live piano music.
- pickaback — piggyback
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
- pinchback — Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
- pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
- placeable — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants.