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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.
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