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11-letter words containing b, o, p

  • boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
  • bon appetit — enjoy your meal
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
  • bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
  • boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
  • boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
  • bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
  • bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
  • bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
  • bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
  • 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
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • 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
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bumper crop — large harvest
  • 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.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • 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.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • camp robber — Canada jay
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
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