9-letter words containing a, r, p, o, b
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- packboard — a rigid wooden or metal frame, covered with fabric and having shoulder straps, to which equipment can be strapped for carrying.
- paderborn — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, in NW Germany.
- pair bond — the exclusive relationship formed between a male and a female, esp in some species of animals and birds during courtship and breeding
- pair-bond — (of a mating couple) to form and maintain a pair bond.
- para-bola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- pay board — a former government agency that controlled prices and wages
- perborate — a salt of perboric acid, as sodium perborate, NaBO 3 ⋅4H 2 O, used for bleaching, disinfecting, etc.
- perfboard — hardboard with perforations into which pegs or hooks can be inserted for hanging or displaying objects.
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- piano bar — a cocktail lounge featuring live piano music.
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- porbandar — a seaport in SW Gujarat, in W India.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- pro-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- probation — the act of testing.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- reprobate — a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
- saprobial — relating to saprobity
- scrapbook — an album in which pictures, newspaper clippings, etc., may be pasted or mounted.
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- top brass — brass (def 5).