11-letter words containing p, t, e
- autopoiesis — Self creation; self organization.
- axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- baffleplate — a plate used as a baffle.
- baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
- 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.
- baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- 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
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- bell-topper — a tall silk hat
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- biblioklept — a person who steals books.
- bicomponent — a fibre composed of two compounds
- bicorporate — having two bodies
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
- 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.
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bon appetit — enjoy your meal
- 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)
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
- break it up — stop fighting