11-letter words containing p, l
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
- banana peel — A banana peel is the same as a banana skin.
- banana plug — a small single-conductor electrical plug having a curved metal spring along its shank forming a clip to hold it in its socket
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
- barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- 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
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- 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 pepper — A bell pepper is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable with seeds.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- bell-topper — a tall silk hat
- bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- berkeley fp — (language) A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- biblioklept — a person who steals books.
- bibliopegic — relating to bookbinding as a fine art
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books
- bibliophily — the love of books
- bibliophobe — a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.
- bibliopolic — relating to bibliopoles
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- bipyramidal — relating to a symmetrical structure consisting of two pyramids
- 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.
- black japan — a black bituminous varnish
- 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.
- black stump — a long way off
- 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.