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9-letter words containing b, p, i

  • pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
  • pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
  • pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
  • pinch bug — a stag beetle
  • pinchback — Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
  • pinchbeck — an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold.
  • pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
  • pipe bomb — a small homemade bomb typically contained in a metal pipe.
  • pitchbend — an electronic device that enables a player to bend the pitch of a note being sounded on a synthesizer, usually with a pitch wheel, strip, or lever
  • pittsburg — a city in W California.
  • 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.
  • plausible — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
  • plausibly — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
  • play-bill — a program or announcement of a play.
  • plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
  • pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
  • 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.
  • post-obit — effective after a particular person's death.
  • potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
  • pourboire — a gratuity; tip.
  • pre-build — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • 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.
  • prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
  • preobtain — to obtain in advance
  • presbytic — affected by presbyopia
  • prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
  • previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
  • priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
  • prime rib — beef: meat from ribs
  • print bar — a mechanism in a printer that has the template of characters to be printed.
  • print job — computer: batch of files to be printed
  • printable — capable of being printed.
  • printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
  • 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
  • proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
  • publicise — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • publicist — a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant.
  • publicity — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
  • publicize — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
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