12-letter words containing b, o, p
- compressible — If something is compressible, its volume can change when pressure is applied to it.
- computer bus — bus
- contemplable — able to be contemplated
- contemptable — Contemptible.
- contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
- contemptibly — deserving of or held in contempt; despicable.
- copper beech — A copper beech is a type of tree with reddish-brown leaves.
- corncob pipe — a pipe made from a dried corncob
- coulrophobia — an abnormal fear of clowns.
- cryptobiosis — a temporary state in an organism in which metabolic activity is absent or undetectable
- cryptobiotic — Of or pertaining to cryptobiosis.
- cub reporter — A cub reporter is a young newspaper journalist who is still being trained.
- cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
- cymbocephaly — scaphocephaly.
- debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
- decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- drop biscuit — a biscuit made by dropping baking powder biscuit dough from a spoon onto a pan for baking.
- ebullioscopy — (physics) the measurement of the boiling point of liquids.
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- ephebophilia — the condition of being sexually attracted to adolescents
- equiprobable — (of two or more things ) equally likely to occur; having equal probability.
- espresso bar — a coffee house that specializes in espresso coffee and other coffee drinks with an espresso base
- exprobration — the act of reproaching
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- exprobratory — acting as a reproach
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- gerontophobe — a person who fears or hates old people or the idea of growing old
- glossophobia — The fear of public speaking.
- graphophobia — Fear or dislike of writing.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
- heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
- hispanophobe — a person who dislikes Hispanic culture or the Spanish language.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- hopper barge — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- hosepipe ban — a ban, due to water shortage, on using hosepipes to water the garden or wash cars
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hyperbolical — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.