11-letter words containing b, o, p
- carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.
- carbon-copy — a duplicate of anything written or typed, made by using a photocopier or, formerly, by using carbon paper. Abbreviation: cc. a copy of an email or other electronic document that is sent to one or more people in addition to the primary addressee. Abbreviation: cc.
- carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
- clapboarded — Simple past tense and past participle of clapboard.
- clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
- collapsable — capable of collapsing or of being collapsed, as for carrying or storing.
- collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
- compactable — Capable of being compacted.
- compactible — able to be made compact
- companiable — sociable
- compassable — Capable of being compassed or accomplished.
- compellable — (of a witness) able to be made to attend court or testify.
- compensable — entitled to compensation or capable of being compensated
- completable — able to be completed
- comportable — (obsolete) suitable; consistent.
- compossible — possible in coexistence with something else
- compost bin — a container designed to expedite the development of compost
- compostable — capable of being used as compost
- comprisable — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- copaiba oil — a colorless, yellowish, or bluish liquid having a pepperlike odor and bitter taste, obtained from copaiba by distillation: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes and soaps.
- copper belt — a region of Central Africa, along the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo: rich deposits of copper
- coprophobia — an abnormal fear of feces.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copy member — copybook
- corbie-step — any of a set of steps on the top of a gable
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- coupon bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
- crab-plover — a black and white wading bird, Dromas ardeola, of the northern and western shores of the Indian Ocean.
- cryptobiont — any organism that exhibits cryptobiosis
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- cyberphobia — an irrational fear of computers
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- developable — Able to be developed, in particular.
- disposables — Plural form of disposable.
- disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).