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8-letter words containing b, p, i

  • pin bone — a hip bone on a cow, horse or similar animal, that sticks out
  • pin-ball — any of various games played on a sloping, glass-topped table presenting a field of colorful, knoblike target pins and rails, the object usually being to shoot a ball, driven by a spring, up a side passage and cause it to roll back down against these projections and through channels, which electrically flash or ring and record the score.
  • pinatuboMount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
  • pinchbug — a stag beetle
  • pintable — a pinball machine
  • pit boss — a casino employee who supervises gambling-table activity.
  • pit bull — American Staffordshire terrier.
  • pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
  • pitiable — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
  • pitiably — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.
  • playbill — a program or announcement of a play.
  • plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
  • plumb in — When someone plumbs in a device such as a washing machine, toilet, or bath, they connect it to the water and waste pipes in a building.
  • plumbing — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
  • plumbism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
  • plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
  • polabian — a member of a Slavic people who once lived in the Elbe River basin and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany.
  • polybius — c205–c123 b.c, Greek historian.
  • polybrid — a hybrid plant with more than two parental groups
  • 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.
  • prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
  • prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • prepubis — (in some animals) a bone situated in front of the pubis
  • prizable — of worth
  • prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
  • pub quiz — a quiz, often a regular event, held in a pub
  • publican — Chiefly British. a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub.
  • publicly — by the state
  • publics' — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
  • pudibund — prudish or shameful
  • puffbird — any of several tropical American birds of the family Bucconidae, related to the barbets, having a large head with the feathers often fluffed out.
  • purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
  • republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
  • rippable — to cut or tear apart in a rough or vigorous manner: to rip open a seam; to rip up a sheet.
  • saprobic — saprophyte.
  • sparerib — a cut of pork ribs with most of the meat trimmed off
  • spitball — a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
  • suboptic — below the eye
  • subprime — being of less than top quality: a subprime grade of steel.
  • subprior — a monk junior to a prior
  • subpubic — beneath the pubic bone
  • subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
  • subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
  • unbishop — to remove (someone) from the position of bishop
  • vbscript — Visual BASIC Script
  • whipbird — any of several birds of the genus Psophodes, esp P. olivaceus (eastern whipbird) and P. nigrogularis (black-throated whipbird), having a whistle ending in a whipcrack note
  • wipeable — able to be wiped
  • zippable — Capable of being fastened with a zip.
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