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9-letter words containing b, o, p

  • phone box — A phone box is a small shelter in the street in which there is a public telephone.
  • photobomb — to ruin (a photograph) by appearing in the image without the photographer’s knowledge, often in some dramatic or comical way: My brother photobombed what would have been a nice photo of my grandma and me.
  • phototube — an electron tube with a photosensitive cathode, used like a photocell.
  • piano bar — a cocktail lounge featuring live piano music.
  • pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
  • pipe bomb — a small homemade bomb typically contained in a metal pipe.
  • pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
  • pizza box — [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes. Two megabyte single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.
  • ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
  • plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
  • plumb bob — plummet (def 1).
  • plumb-bob — plummet (def 1).
  • plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
  • plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
  • poachable — able to be poached
  • pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
  • pokeberry — the berry of the pokeweed.
  • pole bean — any vinelike variety of bean that is trained to grow upright on a pole, trellis, fence, etc.
  • politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
  • pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
  • porbandar — a seaport in SW Gujarat, in W India.
  • porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
  • portobelo — a small port in Panama, on the Caribbean northeast of Colón: the most important port in South America in colonial times; declined with the opening of the Panama Canal. Pop: 3300 (1997)
  • post-boat — mailboat.
  • post-obit — effective after a particular person's death.
  • pot belly — Someone who has a pot belly has a round, fat stomach which sticks out, either because they eat or drink too much, or because they have had very little to eat for some time.
  • pot-belly — a distended or protuberant belly.
  • pot-bound — (of a plant) having the roots so densely grown as to fill the container and require repotting.
  • potatobug — Colorado potato beetle.
  • potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
  • pourboire — a gratuity; tip.
  • powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
  • prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • premorbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
  • preobtain — to obtain in advance
  • prepueblo — belonging to the period before the Pueblo Indians
  • presbyope — a person with presbyopia
  • press box — a press section, especially at a sports event.
  • print job — computer: batch of files to be printed
  • pro-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
  • probation — the act of testing.
  • probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
  • probingly — with a probing approach
  • probiotic — a usually dairy food or a dietary supplement containing live bacteria that replace or add to the beneficial bacteria normally present in the gastrointestinal tract.
  • proboscis — the trunk of an elephant.
  • procambia — plant part in stem and root
  • proembryo — any of the stages prior to embryo formation in plants
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