9-letter words containing p, a, b, o
- 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.
- body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- 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.
- boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
- 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.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- comptable — countable
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
- dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop bear — a mythical creature said to live in the outback; it resembles an oversized koala with sharp teeth and drops from trees to devour unwary passers-by
- droppable — Capable of being dropped (especially by an aircraft).
- ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
- embla pro — (messaging, tool) An IMAP-compliant electronic mail client from WinSoft Products Ltd. EMBLA Pro allows you to use an IMAP mail server in a true client/server network manner, once you've connected to the IMAP server, you can organise messages into folders on the server and you can view messages and any attached files at the server before deciding whether or not to download them to your local system. IMAP allows the user to select individual message attachments to be viewed and/or downloaded. You can delete files and messages from the server, move or copy them to the local computer or leave them for future retrieval. EMBLA Pro also supports the standard POP3 protocol. Both POP3 and IMAP2 run over E-SMTP. The IMAP Unix daemons can support specific environments, for example, Sun MailTool attachments. All flavours of Unix are catered for with a suite of binary mail daemons, eg: SunSoft Solaris, HP, IBM and SCO. EMBLA conforms to the SMTP, E-SMTP, MIME and IMAP Internet standards - RFC1590 (RFC1521), RFC1522, RFC1426, RFC1425, RFC1176, RFC0822, RFC0821 and the draft update of RFC1176.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- 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.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- neophobia — Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of anything new, novel, or unfamiliar.
- objectpal — Object-oriented database language, part of Borland's MS-Windows version of Paradox.
- opposable — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
- packboard — a rigid wooden or metal frame, covered with fabric and having shoulder straps, to which equipment can be strapped for carrying.
- paderborn — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, in NW Germany.
- pair bond — the exclusive relationship formed between a male and a female, esp in some species of animals and birds during courtship and breeding