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11-letter words containing p, e, d

  • backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
  • backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
  • baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
  • banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
  • barbed tape — wire with razor-sharp edges or projections, placed in coils as a barrier along the tops of fences or walls, as at a prison.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • be prepared — to be willing and able (to do something)
  • 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.
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
  • bird pepper — a tropical solanaceous plant, Capsicum frutescens, thought to be the ancestor of the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
  • bird spider — any large hairy predatory bird-eating spider of the family Aviculariidae, of tropical America
  • blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • 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
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
  • bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
  • 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
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • 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.
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • candy apple — A candy apple is an apple coated with hard, red sugar syrup and fixed on a stick.
  • capacitated — Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • cape doctor — a strong fresh SE wind blowing in the vicinity of Cape Town, esp in the summer
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capitalised — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • capitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of capitalize.
  • capitulated — Simple past tense and past participle of capitulate.
  • capped hock — any swelling, inflammatory or otherwise, on the point of the hock of horses.
  • capped pawn — a pawn that has been singled out or marked by a strong player as the one with which he or she intends to effect checkmate in giving a weaker opponent odds.
  • capped-rate — having a fixed upper limit
  • card hopper — a device that allows cards of varying thicknesses to be fed individually through an outlet opening in a printer without adjustment
  • cardsharper — (rare) alternative spelling of cardsharp.
  • cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
  • cedar apple — a brown gall on the branches of the juniper, produced by several rust fungi of the genus Gymnosporangium.
  • cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
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