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11-letter words containing p, b, d

  • brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
  • coupon bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
  • crab spider — any of a family (Thomisidae) of spiders that move sideways like crabs
  • crispbreads — Plural form of crispbread.
  • cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
  • demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
  • dependables — Plural form of dependable.
  • depreciable — able to be depreciated for tax deduction
  • depressible — that can be depressed
  • developable — Able to be developed, in particular.
  • discerpible — Capable of being discerped.
  • dispellable — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
  • dispensable — capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential.
  • dispensably — in a dispensable manner
  • dispensible — dispensable.
  • dispersible — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
  • displayable — Capable of being displayed.
  • disposables — Plural form of disposable.
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
  • do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
  • double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • drapability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • expandables — Plural form of expandable.
  • expendables — Plural form of expendable.
  • hybrid chip — an integrated circuit that comprises both diffused active devices and thin-film components.
  • hydrophobia — rabies.
  • hydrophobic — of or relating to hydrophobia.
  • hyperboloid — a quadric surface having a finite center and some of its plane sections hyperbolas. Equation: x 2 / a 2 + y 2 / b 2 − z 2 / c 2 = 1.
  • inadaptable — lacking the ability to adapt
  • judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
  • lapel badge — pin or button worn on the collar
  • mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • paddle ball — a game similar to handball, but played with a short-handled, perforated paddle
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