9-letter words containing t, p
- 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.
- bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
- 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.
- bra strap — a strap for fastening a bra
- brat pack — A brat pack is a group of young people, especially actors or writers, who are popular or successful at the moment.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- 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
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- 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.
- cacotopia — a dystopia
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- 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.
- caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- cam plant — any plant that undergoes a form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night
- camp site — a place used or suitable for camping.
- campanist — an expert on bells
- campcraft — the skills that are required for camping
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- campsites — Plural form of campsite.
- campstool — a lightweight folding stool
- cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
- capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
- cape cart — a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle sometimes with a canvas hood
- cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
- capitally — in an excellent manner; admirably
- capitasti — a plural of capotasto.
- capitated — having a fixed upper limit
- capitatim — Per head.
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.