9-letter words containing l, p
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- bee plant — any of various plants much visited by bees for nectar and pollen
- bel paese — a mild creamy Italian cheese
- bell pull — a handle, rope, or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or servant's bell
- bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- bell rope — a rope attached to a bell
- belly pan — a plate enclosing the bottom of an automotive vehicle or the like below the chassis.
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- belt loop — a loop through which a belt is threaded
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
- bespeckle — to mark with speckles
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bicipital — having two heads
- big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- biophilia — an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- black cap — any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
- black pad — a rough road or track
- black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
- blackdamp — air that is low in oxygen content and high in carbon dioxide as a result of an explosion in a mine
- blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
- blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
- 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.
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blind pig — speak-easy
- 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."
- blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
- blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
- 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.
- blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
- blue pill — a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.
- blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- bode plot — A Bode plot is the graph of amplitude (in decibels) and phase against frequency (in logarithmic format).
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it