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

  • 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
  • be prepared — to be willing and able (to do something)
  • 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.
  • beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
  • 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.
  • bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
  • bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
  • bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
  • bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
  • bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • bicorporate — having two bodies
  • biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • 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
  • 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
  • boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
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