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11-letter words containing p, l, a

  • breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
  • 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.
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • budget plan — the planning of one's spending
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • 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
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
  • campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
  • campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capableness — The state or quality of being capable.
  • capaciously — In a capacious manner.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape helles — a cape in NW Turkey, at the S end of the Gallipoli Peninsula
  • cape-glossa — Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
  • 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.
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