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11-letter words containing o, s, p

  • backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
  • backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
  • barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
  • barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
  • baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
  • base period — a neutral period used as a standard for comparison in constructing an index to express a variable factor: 100 is usually taken as the index number for the variable in the base period
  • basepersons — Plural form of baseperson.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
  • bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
  • berry spoon — a small spoon, especially of the late 18th century, having a perforated bowl.
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • biomorphism — a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan: The paintings of Joan Miró are often notable for their playful, bright-colored biomorphs.
  • biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
  • blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
  • blood sport — Blood sports are sports such as hunting in which animals are killed.
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
  • boot polish — a resistant polish specially formulated to protect boots of various kinds
  • bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
  • bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
  • bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
  • box spanner — a spanner consisting of a steel cylinder with a hexagonal end that fits over a nut: used esp to turn nuts in positions that are recessed or difficult of access
  • boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
  • bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
  • british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • c-odescript — (language)   A Liana interpreter, embeddable in C and C++ programs.
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