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11-letter words containing b, o, t, p

  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
  • boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
  • boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
  • boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
  • bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
  • brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • cape breton — an island forming the NE part of Nova Scotia, in SE Canada. 3970 sq. mi. (10,280 sq. km).
  • carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
  • 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.
  • compactable — Capable of being compacted.
  • compactible — able to be made compact
  • completable — able to be completed
  • comportable — (obsolete) suitable; consistent.
  • compost bin — a container designed to expedite the development of compost
  • compostable — capable of being used as compost
  • copper belt — a region of Central Africa, along the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo: rich deposits of copper
  • 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
  • cryptobiont — any organism that exhibits cryptobiosis
  • 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-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • embonpoints — Plural form of embonpoint.
  • embryopathy — (pathology) Any developmental disorder of an embryo.
  • embryophyte — any of a subkingdom of plants, Embryophyta, that encompasses most land plants, such as trees, flowers and mosses
  • emetophobia — Fear of vomiting.
  • emetophobic — Pertaining to, or afflicted with, emetophobia, a morbid fear of vomiting.
  • erotophobia — an abnormal fear of sexuality
  • exploitable — Able to be exploited, especially commercially.
  • fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
  • gob-stopper — a large piece of hard candy.
  • gobstoppers — Plural form of gobstopper.
  • haptoglobin — A protein present in blood serum that binds to and removes free hemoglobin from the bloodstream.
  • heterophobe — Someone who suffers from heterophobia.
  • hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
  • hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
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