9-letter words containing b, p, s
- bishopdom — the jurisdiction of a bishop
- bishopess — a bishop's wife
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- blaspheme — If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word.
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- body shop — a place where the bodywork of motor vehicles is built or repaired
- book post — a special system and rate for posting books
- boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
- boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
- box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
- bra strap — a strap for fastening a bra
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- busy-loop — tight loop
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- capybaras — Plural form of capybara.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- copybooks — Plural form of copybook.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- epibiosis — any relationship between two organisms in which one grows on the other but is not parasitic on it
- escapable — Able to be escaped or run from.
- fist bump — a gesture of greeting, friendship, triumph, etc., in which two people make a fist and bump each other's knuckles.
- flipbooks — Plural form of flipbook.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- graspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- gypsy cab — a taxicab that is licensed only to pick up passengers on call by telephone, but that often illegally seeks passengers on the street.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hip boots — waders: thigh-high rubber boots
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- job corps — an organization within the Department of Labor that operates rural conservation camps and urban training centers for poor youths.