11-letter words containing p, a, t, e
- autopoiesis — Self creation; self organization.
- axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- baffleplate — a plate used as a baffle.
- baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
- barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
- battle plan — the strategy to be used in a military engagement.
- battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
- battleplane — an airplane designed for combat; warplane.
- battleships — Plural form of battleship.
- battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- bit pattern — (data) A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bon appetit — enjoy your meal
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
- break it up — stop fighting
- break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
- cactus pear — tuna2 .
- cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.