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10-letter words containing b, i, p, o

  • opprobrium — the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
  • optionable — the power or right of choosing.
  • optophobia — The fear of opening one's eyes.
  • paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
  • paint bomb — a device containing paint which explodes on impact
  • panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
  • panophobia — a fear of everything
  • parabiosis — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
  • parabiotic — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
  • parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
  • paraboloid — a surface that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to at least one coordinate plane are parabolas.
  • paramaribo — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
  • pecos bill — a legendary cowboy of the American frontier who performed such fabulous feats as digging the Rio Grande.
  • pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
  • phlebolite — a small mass or solid deposit of calcium that forms in a vein
  • phlebolith — valueless rock or mineral matter occurring in a vein; gangue.
  • phone bill — an account or bill for the charges for a telephone and line and for calls made from it
  • phycobilin — any of a class of red or blue-green pigments found in the red algae and cyanobacteria
  • phycobiont — the algae component of a lichen.
  • picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
  • pik pobedy — Russian name of Pobeda Peak.
  • pillar box — a pillarlike box in which letters are deposited for collection by mail carriers; mailbox.
  • pilot bird — a warbler of forest floors in SE Australia, Pycnoptilus floccosus, named from its alleged habit of accompanying the superb lyrebird
  • pilot boat — a boat carrying pilots to or from large ships.
  • pimpmobile — a large, expensive, and ostentatious or vulgarly ornate automobile, typically one painted in bright colors and fitted out with a lavish or overelaborate interior.
  • pinto bean — a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having mottled or spotted seeds: grown chiefly in the southern U.S.
  • piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
  • pitot tube — (often lowercase) an instrument for measuring fluid velocity, consisting of a narrow tube, one end of which is open and faces upstream, the other end being connected to a manometer.
  • pogey bait — candy or a treat used to lure a child into a sexual situation.
  • poisonable — able to be poisoned
  • polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
  • polyhybrid — a heterozygous hybrid
  • poop cabin — a cabin situated immediately beneath the poop deck of a ship.
  • popemobile — Informal. any of various vehicles used to transport the pope when he appears in public, typically equipped with bulletproof glass.
  • port blair — a seaport in and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on S Andaman.
  • portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
  • 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.
  • potability — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
  • potbellied — Someone, usually a man, who is potbellied has a potbelly.
  • 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.
  • probenecid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 1 3 H 1 9 NO 4 S, used chiefly in the treatment of gout.
  • probiotics — a therapeutic treatment involving the ingestion of harmless bacteria
  • problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
  • procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
  • producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • prohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
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