9-letter words containing t, p
- baldpated — (archaic) Lacking hair on the head; bald.
- ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
- bang path — 1. (communications) An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2. (operating system) A shebang.
- bankrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bankrupt.
- baptisand — Alternative spelling of baptizand.
- baptising — Present participle of baptise.
- baptismal — Baptismal means relating to or connected with baptism.
- baptistic — Of or for baptism; baptismal.
- baptistry — a part of a Christian church in which baptisms are carried out
- baptizand — A person about to submit to baptism.
- baptizing — Present participle of baptize.
- barotropy — a state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density do not intersect but are parallel.
- base path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
- baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
- basipetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the apex downwards so that the youngest are at the base
- bath chap — the lower part of the cheek of a pig, cooked and eaten, usually cold
- bear trap — snare to catch bears
- beaten-up — A beaten-up car or other object is old and in bad condition.
- bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
- bee plant — any of various plants much visited by bees for nectar and pollen
- belt loop — a loop through which a belt is threaded
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
- 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.
- bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- bicipital — having two heads
- bicompact — compact1 (def 7).
- 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
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- bipinnate — (of pinnate leaves) having the leaflets themselves divided into smaller leaflets
- 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
- black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.
- 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.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- 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.
- boat trip — a trip in a boat
- bode plot — A Bode plot is the graph of amplitude (in decibels) and phase against frequency (in logarithmic format).
- body part — a part of a human body
- body type — type used in the main text of printed matter, generally less than 14 points.
- 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)
- book post — a special system and rate for posting books