7-letter words containing b, p, o
- lobiped — (of birds) having lobed toes
- lobopod — The lobopodium of an onychophoran.
- mob-cap — a soft cloth cap with a full crown, fitting down over the ears and frequently tying beneath the chin, formerly worn indoors by women.
- mobcaps — Plural form of mobcap.
- openbsd — (operating system) A version of BSD Unix with an emphasis on security. A lot of security work that is ported to other free operating systems originates with OpenBSD and a lot of code review is done here. Sub-projects of OpenBSD include implementations of SSH, ntpd, and CVS, to be called OpenCVS.
- outburp — (informal, transitive, rare) To burp louder or better than.
- pageboy — a hair style in which the hair is rolled under, usually at shoulder-length.
- parboil — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
- peabody — Elizabeth Palmer, 1804–94, U.S. educator and reformer: founded the first kindergarten in the U.S.
- peg box — the head of a stringed instrument, with several pegs that can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them
- phlebo- — indicating a vein
- phobist — a person who suffers from an unusual fear or dread of something
- phoebus — Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
- phorbol — the parent alcohol, C 2 0 H 2 8 O 6 , of certain carcinogenic compounds in croton oil.
- pibgorn — an ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.
- pibroch — (in the Scottish Highlands) a piece of music for the bagpipe, consisting of a series of variations on a basic theme, usually martial in character, but sometimes used as a dirge.
- pigboat — a submarine.
- pillbox — a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills.
- pin boy — (formerly) a person stationed in the sunken area of a bowling alley behind the pins who places the pins in the proper positions, removes pins that have been knocked down, and returns balls to the bowlers.
- pinbone — the hipbone, especially in a four-footed animal.
- placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
- playboy — a man who pursues a life of pleasure without responsibility or attachments, especially one who is of comfortable means.
- plowboy — a boy who leads or guides a team drawing a plow.
- po' boy — a baguette filled with fried meat or seafood
- poblano — a dark-green, mild or slightly pungent chili pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum annuum used in cooking.
- pokable — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polybus — a Corinthian king who was the foster father of Oedipus.
- poorbox — a box, esp one in a church, used for the collection of alms or money for the poor
- posable — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- postbag — mailbag.
- postbox — a mailbox, especially one for public deposit of mail.
- postboy — (formerly) a boy or man who rode post or carried mail.
- postbus — (in Britain, esp in rural districts) a vehicle carrying the mail that also carries passengers
- potable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- potboil — to create potboilers.
- potherb — any herb prepared as food by cooking in a pot, as spinach, or added as seasoning in cookery, as thyme.
- preboil — to boil (food etc) before (cooking, roasting, etc)
- prebook — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- preboom — of the period before an economic boom; existing or occurring prior to an economic boom
- preborn — not yet born
- pre\box — (computer) Phase 5's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card, as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram. It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software. Other features include EIDE, Ultra Wide SCSI-II, PCI, Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower. Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
- proball — believable; probable
- proband — a patient who is the initial member of a family to come under study.
- probang — a long, slender, elastic rod with a sponge, ball, or the like, at the end, to be introduced into the esophagus or larynx, as for removing foreign bodies, or for introducing medication.
- probate — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- probing — to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely: to probe one's conscience.
- probity — integrity and uprightness; honesty.
- problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- proverb — a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.
- pt boat — a small, fast, lightly armed, unarmored, and highly maneuverable boat used chiefly for torpedoing enemy shipping.