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11-letter words containing p, e, i

  • bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bitter pill — a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
  • blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
  • bon appetit — enjoy your meal
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
  • bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • 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.
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
  • bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
  • bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
  • cacoepistic — Of or relating to mispronounced words.
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
  • campaigners — Plural form of campaigner.
  • campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campestrian — Relating to open fields; growing in a field, or open ground.
  • camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
  • cap-haitien — a port in N Haiti: capital during the French colonial period. Pop: 134 000 (2005 est)
  • capacitance — the property of a system that enables it to store electric charge
  • capacitated — Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.
  • capacitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capacitate.
  • caparisoned — (of a horse) Having a richly ornamented harness.
  • cape pigeon — a species of seagoing petrel, Daption capensis, with characteristic white wing patches: a common winter visitor off the coasts of southern Africa: family Diomedeidae
  • capernoited — capricious
  • capernoitie — the head
  • capillaries — pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
  • capitalised — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
  • capitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of capitalize.
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