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11-letter words containing p

  • baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
  • baptistries — Plural form of baptistry.
  • bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
  • 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.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • 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.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
  • basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
  • bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
  • bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
  • 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
  • batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
  • 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 of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • beam weapon — a laser-beam or particle-beam weapon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bed and pep — (of a stock-exchange transaction) complying with regulations for self-select PEPs, a shareholding being sold in the evening and bought back the next morning for the shareholder's own PEP
  • 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.
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • 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
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