8-letter words containing b, p, i
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainpan — the skull
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- build-up — the physical structure, especially of a person; physique; figure: He had a strong build.
- built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- capibara — a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent.
- chip box — chad box
- copiable — Alternative spelling of copyable.
- dippable — (of a headlamp, etc) capable of being dipped
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- epiblast — The outermost layer of an embryo before it differentiates into ectoderm and mesoderm.
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
- expiable — Capable of being expiated or atoned for.
- fistbump — A fist bump.
- flipbook — a small book consisting of a series of images in different positions that create the illusion of flowing movement when the thumb is placed so the pages flip quickly.
- haphsiba — Hephzibah (def 1).
- hepzibah — a female given name.
- hip bath — small bathtub or bath chair
- hip boot — a hip-high boot, usually of rubber, worn by fishermen, firefighters, etc.
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- ibm pcjr — (computer) (IBM PC Junior) A floppy disk-based home computer with an Intel 8088 CPU and a chiclet keyboard, released in November 1983. The PCjr could be expanded to have two floppy drives and 640 kilobytes of RAM using sidecars. Some even had a mouse and could run drawing programs with popup menus.
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- jump bid — a bid higher than necessary to reach the next bidding level, usually to indicate exceptional strength.
- lapsible — liable to lapse.
- lip balm — salve for the lips
- lipscomb — William Nunn [nuhn] /nʌn/ (Show IPA), Jr. 1919–2011, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1976.
- objvlisp — 1984. An object-oriented extension of Vlisp. Reflective architecture.
- openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- paintbox — container of artist's colours
- panbroil — to cook in a pan with little fat or moisture
- parnaiba — a seaport in NE Brazil.
- partible — capable of being divided or separated; separable; divisible.
- passible — capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
- pebbling — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
- periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- phi bete — a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
- philabeg — filibeg.
- philibeg — the kilt or pleated skirt worn by Scottish Highlanders.
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- piblokto — a culture-specific syndrome occurring among traditional Eskimo women, characterized by an outburst of cries or screams, the removal of clothing, and seeming possession by a bird or animal spirit.
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.