10-letter words containing a, b, p
- bead plane — a plane for cutting beads.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- bean aphid — a small, black aphid, Aphis fabae, often found on beans and related plants.
- bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
- bear's-paw — a clam of the genus Hippopus, having a ridged, white shell with purplish-red spots.
- beast epic — a long verse narrative in which the misadventures of animals satirize human foibles and follies.
- beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- bedspreads — Plural form of bedspread.
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- belly pack — fanny pack.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- beth-phage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- bibliotaph — a person who caches or hoards books.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
- big rapids — a town in central Michigan.
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- bioplastic — plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipartisan — Bipartisan means concerning or involving two different political parties or groups.
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bipinnaria — a free-swimming starfish larva
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- black caps — any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
- black opal — any opal of a dark coloration, not necessarily black
- black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- blackpatch — a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).