11-letter words containing p
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
- blood group — Someone's blood group is the type of blood that they have in their body. There are four main types: A, B, AB, and O.
- blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
- blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
- bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- 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
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- body packer — a smuggler of illegal drugs, especially one who swallows bags containing them.
- body-packer — a person who smuggles illicit drugs in balloons, condoms, or similar plastic bags which have either been swallowed or inserted in the rectum or vagina
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bon appetit — enjoy your meal
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- 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)
- bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
- bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- 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.
- boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
- boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
- bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
- box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- brake pedal — (in a vehicle) a pedal that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brandy snap — Brandy snaps are very thin crisp biscuits in the shape of hollow cylinders. They are flavoured with ginger and are often filled with cream.
- bread plate — A bread plate is a small plate for bread that you eat along with your main meal.
- break it up — stop fighting