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9-letter words containing p, e

  • bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
  • bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
  • bespeckle — to mark with speckles
  • betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
  • bethphage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
  • bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
  • big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
  • bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
  • bioparent — a biological parent
  • biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
  • biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
  • bioweapon — Bioweapons are biological weapons.
  • bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
  • bipedally — in a bipedal manner
  • bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
  • bishopess — a bishop's wife
  • 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
  • bitmapped — composed of or formed by a pattern of pixels to make a bitmap
  • 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
  • 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 type — type used in the main text of printed matter, generally less than 14 points.
  • bog paper — toilet paper
  • bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
  • booked up — If a hotel, restaurant, theatre, or transport service is booked up, it has no rooms, tables, or tickets left for a time or date.
  • 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.
  • boozed-up — intoxicated; drunk
  • borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
  • 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
  • boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
  • brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
  • breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
  • broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
  • bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
  • bubble up — A feeling that is bubbling up inside you is growing stronger and stronger.
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