10-letter words containing p, l
- bahawalpur — an industrial city in Pakistan: cotton, soap. Pop: 563 000 (2005 est)
- bailieship — the office or district of a bailie
- bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
- balikpapan — a city in Indonesia, on the SE coast of Borneo. Pop: 409 023 (2000)
- ballplayer — A ballplayer is a baseball player.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
- barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
- barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
- baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
- basophiles — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophilia — an abnormal increase of basophil leucocytes in the blood
- basophilic — having an affinity for basic stains.
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- bay poplar — the tupelo, Nyssa aquatica.
- be of help — If someone or something is of help, they make a situation easier or better.
- beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
- bead plane — a plane for cutting beads.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- bell punch — a machine that issues or stamps a ticket, etc, ringing a bell as it does so
- bell sheep — a sheep that a shearer is just starting to shear (and which he is allowed to finish) as the bell rings for the end of a work period
- bellperson — a bellhop.
- belly flop — a dive into water in which the body lands horizontally
- belly pack — fanny pack.
- belly-flop — to do a belly flop, as in diving or sledding.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- bespeckled — to speckle.
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- bibliopegy — the art of binding books
- bibliopole — a dealer in books, esp rare or decorative ones
- bibliopoly — a bookseller, especially a dealer in rare or used books.
- bibliotaph — a person who caches or hoards books.
- bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
- bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
- bilge pump — a pump for removing water from a bilge.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bioplastic — plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bipolarize — to make bipolar