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9-letter words containing p, o

  • 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
  • bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
  • bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
  • bombproof — capable of withstanding the impact of bombs
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
  • book post — a special system and rate for posting books
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
  • boozed-up — intoxicated; drunk
  • bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
  • borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
  • boskopoid — of, relating to, or characteristic of Boskop man or the culture or habitat of Boskop man.
  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
  • box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
  • box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
  • boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
  • 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
  • bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
  • bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
  • bumpology — phrenology
  • bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
  • bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
  • buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
  • bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
  • busy-loop — tight loop
  • button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
  • byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
  • cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
  • cacoepist — One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.
  • cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
  • cacotopia — a dystopia
  • cajeputol — cineole.
  • cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
  • cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
  • call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
  • calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
  • calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
  • camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
  • campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
  • campeador — a champion
  • campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
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