8-letter words containing p, i
- bedimple — to form dimples in
- bepimple — form pimples on
- bepraise — to praise highly
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- bi-party — representing two distinct parties: a biparty investigating committee.
- bibimbap — a Korean dish of rice, sautéed and seasoned vegetables, and hot pepper paste
- bicuspid — having or terminating in two cusps or points
- biograph — a biographical summary
- biomorph — a set of two-dimensional branching biomorphic images that can be used to illustrate evolutionary concepts
- bioplasm — living matter; protoplasm
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- biopsied — the removal for diagnostic study of a piece of tissue from a living body.
- bioscope — a kind of early film projector
- bioscopy — examination of a body to determine whether it is alive
- biotroph — a parasitic organism, esp a fungus
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- biphasic — having two phases
- biphenyl — a white or colourless crystalline solid used as a heat-transfer agent, as a fungicide, as an antifungal food preservative (E230) on the skins of citrus fruit, and in the manufacture of dyes, etc. Formula: C6H5C6H5
- bit part — A bit part is a small and unimportant role for an actor in a film or play.
- bleeping — (used as a substitute word for one regarded as objectionable): Get that bleeping cat out of here!
- blimpish — highly conservative and nationalistic
- blipping — bleeping.
- blipvert — a very short television advertisement
- blowpipe — a long tube from which pellets, poisoned darts, etc, are shot by blowing
- boatslip — a docking place for a boat, as between wharves.
- bogomips — (unit) (From "bogus", "MIPS") The timing unit of the Linux kernel. A BogoMips is an unscientific measurement of processor speed made by the Linux kernel when it boots, to calibrate an internal busy-loop.
- bonporti — Francesco Antonio. 1672–1749, Italian composer and violinist, noted esp for his Invenzioni (1712), a series of short instrumental suites
- bonspiel — a curling match
- bowsprit — a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel, esp a sailing vessel, used to carry the headstay as far forward as possible
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- brainpan — the skull
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- britpack — a group of young and successful British actors, directors, artists, etc
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- build-up — the physical structure, especially of a person; physique; figure: He had a strong build.
- built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- caiaphas — the high priest at the beginning of John the Baptist's preaching and during the trial of Jesus (Luke 3:2; Matthew 26)
- calipash — the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
- calipers — Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
- caliphal — relating to a caliph
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calliope — a steam organ
- calliper — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calpolli — A subdivision of an altepetl; a
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.