10-letter words containing b, i, o, s, p
- pecos bill — a legendary cowboy of the American frontier who performed such fabulous feats as digging the Rio Grande.
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- poisonable — able to be poisoned
- polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
- posttibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
- presbyopia — farsightedness due to ciliary muscle weakness and loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- probiotics — a therapeutic treatment involving the ingestion of harmless bacteria
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- proscribed — condemned or prohibited
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- ship's boy — a male attendant, as a cabin boy, steward, etc., employed to wait on a ship's passengers or officers.
- sinophobia — a fear or dislike of China, or Chinese people, their language or culture
- sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
- slop basin — a basin or bowl into which the dregs, leaves, and grounds of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table.
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subspinous — situated beneath the spine's protruding vertebrae or 'bumps'
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- unpossible — impossible