9-letter words containing pa
- aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
- aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
- aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
- atabalipa — Atahualpa.
- atahualpa — ?1500–33, the last Inca emperor of Peru (1525–33), who was put to death by the Spanish under Pizarro
- avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
- ayia napa — a coastal resort in SE Cyprus. Pop: 9500 (2004 est)
- back pain — pain that is felt in the back
- back pass — a deliberate pass backwards to the goalkeeper
- backpacks — Plural form of backpack.
- backspace — to move a (typewriter carriage) backwards
- bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
- baldpated — (archaic) Lacking hair on the head; bald.
- ballparks — Plural form of ballpark.
- bang path — 1. (communications) An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2. (operating system) A shebang.
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- base path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
- bel paese — a mild creamy Italian cheese
- belly pan — a plate enclosing the bottom of an automotive vehicle or the like below the chassis.
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
- bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
- bicompact — compact1 (def 7).
- bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- black pad — a rough road or track
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- body part — a part of a human body
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- calc-spar — calcite.
- callipash — the part of a turtle next to the upper shield, consisting of a greenish gelatinous substance, considered a delicacy.
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campaigns — Plural form of campaign.
- campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
- campanist — an expert on bells
- campanula — any N temperate plant of the campanulaceous genus Campanula, typically having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
- capacious — Something that is capacious has a lot of space to put things in.
- capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- carapaced — (of an animal) having a carapace
- carapaces — Plural form of carapace.