11-letter words containing p, i, l
- 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
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- 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.
- 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)
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- 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.
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
- bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
- bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- calligraphy — Calligraphy is the art of producing beautiful handwriting using a brush or a special pen.
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
- campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- capillaries — pertaining to or occurring in or as if in a tube of fine bore.
- capillarity — a phenomenon caused by surface tension and resulting in the distortion, elevation, or depression of the surface of a liquid in contact with a solid
- capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
- capillitium — a mass of very fine threads interspersed among the spores of certain fungi
- capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment
- capitalised — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalists — Plural form of capitalist.
- capitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of capitalize.
- capitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitalize.
- capitellate — (botany) Having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula.
- capitulated — Simple past tense and past participle of capitulate.
- capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
- capiz shell — whitish, translucent shell of the Philippines, used in making lamp shades, decorative articles, etc.
- cappelletti — small squares of pasta containing a savoury mixture of meat, cheese, or vegetables
- caprimulgid — (zoology) Any of the Caprimulgidae, or nightjar family.
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- capsulizing — Present participle of capsulize.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption