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8-letter words containing b, o, p

  • botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
  • boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
  • bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
  • box plot — a graphic representation of a distribution by a rectangle, the ends of which mark the maximum and minimum values, and in which the median and first and third quartiles are marked by lines parallel to the ends.
  • box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
  • brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
  • bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
  • buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
  • bullpout — a type of fish
  • bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
  • bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
  • cape bon — a peninsula of NE Tunisia
  • chapbook — a book of popular ballads, stories, etc, formerly sold by chapmen or pedlars
  • chip box — chad box
  • copiable — Alternative spelling of copyable.
  • copy boy — an employee who runs errands in a newspaper office
  • copyable — able to be copied
  • copybook — A copybook action is done perfectly, according to established rules.
  • cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
  • damp box — a box that is lined with moist material for keeping clay in a plastic state.
  • drop box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
  • drop-box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
  • dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
  • dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
  • euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
  • flipbook — a small book consisting of a series of images in different positions that create the illusion of flowing movement when the thumb is placed so the pages flip quickly.
  • geoprobe — a probing device used for sampling soil
  • hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
  • hip boot — a hip-high boot, usually of rubber, worn by fishermen, firefighters, etc.
  • hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
  • hypobole — the act of anticipating objection for the purpose of refutation
  • job shop — an agency or plant that supplies technical personnel or performs a specific function in a manufacturing process, usually on short-term temporary contracts.
  • lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
  • lap robe — a blanket, fur covering, or the like, used to cover one's lap or legs, as when sitting outdoors or riding in an open vehicle.
  • lapboard — a thin, flat board to be held on the lap for use as a table or writing surface.
  • lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
  • lobopods — Plural form of lobopod.
  • loopback — The routing of a signal, data stream, etc. from its origin back to the origin, primarily as a means of testing the transmission or transportation infrastructure.
  • mopboard — baseboard (def 1).
  • neophobe — One who dislikes new or novel things.
  • objvlisp — 1984. An object-oriented extension of Vlisp. Reflective architecture.
  • obtemper — to comply (with)
  • open bar — a bar at a reception that serves drinks whose cost has been borne by the host, an admission charge, a sponsor, etc.: Before the banquet there will be an open bar from 5 to 7 p.m.
  • open-web — having a web of zigzag or crisscross lacing.
  • openable — capable of being opened.
  • openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
  • operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
  • opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
  • pabouche — a soft shoe
  • paintbox — container of artist's colours
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