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11-letter words containing b, p, i

  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
  • bon appetit — enjoy your meal
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • 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
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • booby prize — The booby prize is a prize given as a joke to the person who comes last in a competition.
  • bookkeeping — Bookkeeping is the job or activity of keeping an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
  • 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.
  • bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
  • bound up in — If something is bound up in a particular form or place, it is fixed in that form or contained in that place.
  • brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
  • bradypeptic — a person with slow digestion
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • break it up — stop fighting
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
  • breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
  • brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • bride price — (in some societies) money, property, or services given by a bridegroom to the kinsmen of his bride in order to establish his rights over the woman
  • bridge lamp — a floor lamp, especially one having the light source on an arm so hinged as to be horizontally adjustable.
  • bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
  • bringing-up — to carry, convey, conduct, or cause (someone or something) to come with, to, or toward the speaker: Bring the suitcase to my house. He brought his brother to my office.
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • buckjumping — a competitive event for buckjumpers in a rodeo
  • 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.
  • bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
  • bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
  • bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
  • bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
  • bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
  • cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
  • campbellism — the practices and principles of the Disciples of Christ.
  • campbellite — a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • catabaptist — a person who is opposed to baptism.
  • chip basket — a wire basket for holding potato chips, etc, while frying in deep fat
  • clipper bow — a bow having a concave stem and a hollow entrance.
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • collapsible — A collapsible object is designed to be folded flat when it is not being used.
  • compactible — able to be made compact
  • companiable — sociable
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