10-letter words containing p, a, e
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
- break step — to cease to march in step
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- burst page — banner
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cablephoto — a photographic image transmitted via cable, especially for use by newspapers or in police work.
- caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caespitose — growing in dense tufts
- calciphile — calcicole.
- calciphobe — calcifuge.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- camelopard — giraffe
- camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campanella — Tommaso. 1568–1639, Italian philosopher and Dominican friar. During his imprisonment by the Spaniards (1599–1626) he wrote his celebrated utopian fantasy, La città del sole
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)