8-letter words containing b, o, p
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabole — a simile
- passbook — a bankbook.
- pc board — a circuit in which the interconnecting conductors and some of the circuit components have been printed, etched, etc., onto a sheet or board of dielectric material (PC board, printed-circuit board)
- peat bog — a swamp in which peat has accumulated.
- peekaboo — Also called bo-peep. a game played by or with very young children, typically in which one covers the face or hides and then suddenly uncovers the face or reappears, calling “Peekaboo!”.
- pegboard — a board having holes into which pegs are placed in specific patterns, used for playing or scoring certain games.
- pembroke — a borough in Dyfed, in SW Wales: birthplace of King Henry VII.
- pennyboy — an employee whose duties include menial tasks, such as running errands
- perborax — sodium perborate.
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- piblokto — a culture-specific syndrome occurring among traditional Eskimo women, characterized by an outburst of cries or screams, the removal of clothing, and seeming possession by a bird or animal spirit.
- pin bone — a hip bone on a cow, horse or similar animal, that sticks out
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pit boss — a casino employee who supervises gambling-table activity.
- play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
- playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
- plow-boy — a boy who leads or guides a team drawing a plow.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- plumbago — graphite.
- plumbous — containing bivalent lead.
- polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
- pollable — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- pollbook — the official list of the registered voters in a given area.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- polybius — c205–c123 b.c, Greek historian.
- polybrid — a hybrid plant with more than two parental groups
- pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- poor box — a box, especially in a church, into which contributions for the poor can be dropped.
- poor boy — Southern U.S. (chiefly Gulf States) . a hero sandwich.
- pop band — a band, consisting of guitars, drums and sometimes other instruments, which plays pop music
- portable — portability
- portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
- poseable — able to be posed or manipulated into poses
- possible — that may or can be, exist, happen, be done, be used, etc.: a disease with no possible cure.
- possibly — perhaps; maybe: It may possibly rain today.
- post-bag — mailbag.
- post-boy — (formerly) a boy or man who rode post or carried mail.
- postbase — a morpheme used as a suffix after a base word
- postburn — after injury from burns
- potbelly — a distended or protuberant belly.
- potbound — (of a plant) having the roots so densely grown as to fill the container and require repotting.
- pottable — (of a snooker ball) able to be potted
- pourable — able to be poured
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- pro bono — for the public good or welfare.
- pro-verb — a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.