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11-letter words containing p, e, a, b

  • parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • passed ball — a pitched ball that the catcher can reasonably be expected to catch but misses, resulting in a base runner's or runners' advancing one or more bases or in the batter's reaching first base safely.
  • passer-byes — a person passing by.
  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • pathbreaker — a person who blazes a trail or path; pathfinder.
  • peace lobby — a lobby for peace or the end of conflict
  • peach melba — a dessert consisting of cooked peach halves served with vanilla ice cream and Melba sauce.
  • pease-brose — brose made from a meal of dried peas
  • pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
  • peche melba — peach Melba.
  • pedobaptism — the baptism of infants.
  • pedobaptist — a person who advocates or practices pedobaptism.
  • penalty box — an enclosed space adjacent to the rink for penalized players, the penalty timekeeper, the game timekeeper, and the official scorer.
  • pencil beam — a cone-shaped radar beam.
  • 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
  • pensionable — worker: of retirement age
  • perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perceivable — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • perceivably — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • perishables — perishable articles, esp food
  • perpetrable — able to be perpetrated
  • perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
  • perspirable — having the ability to perspire
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
  • perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
  • 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.
  • piebaldness — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
  • pine barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
  • pine-barren — a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.
  • pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
  • pipe batten — batten2 (def 5a).
  • pitta bread — a flat rounded slightly leavened bread, originally from the Middle East, with a hollow inside like a pocket, which can be filled with food
  • piz bernina — a mountain in SE Switzerland, the highest peak of the Bernina Alps in the S Rhaetian Alps. Height: 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • plane table — a surveying instrument consisting of a drawing board mounted on adjustable legs, and used in the field for plotting measurements directly
  • plane-table — a drawing board mounted on a tripod, used in the field, with an alidade, for surveying tracts of land.
  • 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.
  • play by ear — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • plebeianism — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • plebeianize — to make popular or vulgar
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
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