11-letter words containing p, b, k
- packing box — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- parking bay — a space in a car park designed to be large enough to park a vehicle in
- pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
- pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
- penny black — the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background
- phrase book — a small book containing everyday phrases and sentences and their equivalents in a foreign language, written especially for travelers.
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- picket boat — a vessel used to patrol a harbor.
- pickup tube — camera tube.
- pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
- plate block — a block of four or more stamps containing the number or numbers of the printing plate or plates in the margin of the sheet.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- pobeda peak — a mountain in central Asia, on the boundary between Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) and China: highest peak of the Tien Shan range. 24,406 feet (7439 meters).
- pocket book — a book small enough to be carried in one's pocket
- point-blank — aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
- poke bonnet — a bonnet with a projecting front brim
- pop-up book — book: illustrations open out
- pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
- power brake — an automotive brake set by pressure from some power source, as a compressed-air reservoir, in proportion to a smaller amount of pressure on the brake pedal.
- powerbroker — a person who wields great political, governmental, or financial power.
- prayer book — a book containing formal prayers to be used in public or private religious devotions.
- press brake — brake1 (def 6).
- price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- prony brake — a friction brake serving as a dynamometer for measuring torque.
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- purple book — 1. (publication) The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2. (publication) The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
- puzzle book — a book of games or questions presenting problems that require skill or ingenuity for their solution
- recipe book — a book containing lists of ingredients and directions for making different food dishes
- report back — If you report back to someone, you tell them about something that they asked you to find out about.
- sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
- ship-broker — a person who acts for a shipowner by getting cargo and passengers for his ships and also handling insurance and other matters
- shopbreaker — a robber who breaks into a shop
- slop bucket — slop pail.
- snapperback — the center on the offensive team.
- speed brake — a flap on an aircraft wing used to decrease speed in flight in preparation for landing.
- step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- unspeakable — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- unspeakably — not speakable; that may not be spoken.
- y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits