11-letter words containing p, c, e
- battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
- 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
- beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
- bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
- bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
- bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
- benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- bibliopegic — relating to bookbinding as a fine art
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- black maple — a tree, Acer saccharum nigrum, of eastern and central North America, having furrowed, blackish bark and yellow-green flowers.
- black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- blanca peak — highest peak of the Sangre de Cristo range, S Colo.: 14,317 ft (4,364 m)
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bumper crop — large harvest
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- c-odescript — (language) A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
- cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- 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.
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camp robber — Canada jay