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11-letter words containing p, r

  • booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
  • 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
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • breastplate — A breastplate is a piece of armour that covers and protects the chest.
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bringing-up — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brood pouch — a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
  • brown paper — a coarse unbleached paper used for wrapping
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • brown pound — the perceived purchasing power of Britain’s Black and Asian minorities as a group
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
  • bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
  • cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cadet corps — a group of school pupils receiving elementary military training in a school corps
  • caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
  • caipirinhas — Plural form of caipirinha.
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