11-letter words containing p, r, e
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
- azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
- backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- 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
- 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.
- baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
- barbary ape — a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
- 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.
- barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
- barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
- barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
- barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
- barge spike — a square spike with a chisel point.
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- 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
- basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- batter pile — a pile driven at an angle to the vertical.
- be prepared — to be willing and able (to do something)
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
- bell pepper — A bell pepper is a hollow green, red, or yellow vegetable with seeds.
- 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
- bench press — a weight-training exercise in which a person lies on a bench and pushes a barbell upwards with both hands from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowers it again
- bench-press — a weightlifting exercise in which one lies supine on a bench and with both hands pushes a barbell or fixed weight upward from chest level to arm's length and then lowers it back to chest level: usually repeated in sets.
- benchership — the position of a bencher at the Inns of Court
- benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
- berkeley fp — (language) A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
- berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- bible paper — a thin tough opaque paper used for Bibles, prayer books, and reference books
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- bimorphemic — pertaining to two morphemes
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- 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.
- 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.