9-letter words that end in p
- 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
- 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 stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
- bra strap — a strap for fastening a bra
- bubble up — A feeling that is bubbling up inside you is growing stronger and stronger.
- 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.
- buck slip — Informal. a paper attached to and showing the destination and source of an interoffice memorandum, file, or the like.
- buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
- bugger up — If someone buggers something up, they ruin it or spoil it.
- bull kelp — any of various large brown seaweeds of Pacific and Antarctic waters
- bundle up — If you bundle up a mass of things, you make them into a bundle by gathering or tying them together.
- bunged up — congested
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- busy-loop — tight loop
- 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.
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- call slip — a form for requesting a library book by title and call number
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cassareep — the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery
- change up — When you change up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- change-up — a temporary shift or variation in a normal routine or regular pattern of activity: Reading a mystery novel has been a real change of pace for me.
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chiefship — the post or situation of a chief
- childship — The state or relation of being a child.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chip shop — A chip shop is a shop which sells hot food such as fish and chips, fried chicken, sausages, and meat pies. The food is cooked in the shop and people take it away to eat at home or in the street.
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- chop chop — pidgin English for quickly
- chop shop — a place where stolen automobiles are dismantled for parts which are sold or used to repair wrecked vehicles which are then illicitly resold
- chop-chop — with haste; quickly.
- cleft lip — a congenital split in the upper lip, often associated with a cleft palate
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- clip-clop — the sound made by a horse's hooves
- clop-clop — a clattering sound of repeated clops.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- coachwhip — a coachwhip snake
- cockahoop — Alternative form of cock-a-hoop.
- codevelop — to develop jointly