10-letter words containing b, p, i
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphide — a disulfide.
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- blowing up — a reprimand
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- bog spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by accumulation in the joint, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
- borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
- borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
- bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
- box spring — A box spring is a frame containing rows of coiled springs that is used to provide support for a mattress. You can also use box springs to refer to the springs themselves.
- brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
- brokership — an agent who buys or sells for a principal on a commission basis without having title to the property.
- brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
- buggy whip — horsewhip
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- bunch pink — sweet william.
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- cacophobia — The fear of ugliness.
- calciphobe — calcifuge.
- canophobia — an abnormal fear of dogs
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capsizable — able to be capsized
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- chip-based — (of electronic equipment or components) using or incorporating microchips
- cibophobia — The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- compatible — If things, for example systems, ideas, and beliefs, are compatible, they work well together or can exist together successfully.
- compatibly — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- competible — (obsolete) Compatible.
- compilable — (computing) That can be compiled.
- compliable — compliant
- corbiestep — one of a series of steps at the upper end wall of some gables