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9-letter words containing b, e, o, p

  • 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.
  • bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
  • buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
  • comptable — countable
  • comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.
  • copybroke — (security)   /kop'ee-brohk/ (Or "copywronged" - a play on "copyright") 1. Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been "broken"; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled or removed. 2. Copy-protected software which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused the copy protection. 3. Used to describe data damaged because of a side effect of a copy protection system.
  • cryoprobe — a surgical instrument with an extremely cold tip, used in cryosurgery to destroy tissue
  • cyberporn — any pornography accessible online or on the internet
  • cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
  • cynophobe — A person with cynophobia.
  • deposable — Capable of being deposed, or deprived of office.
  • dna probe — a technique for identifying a segment of DNA, using a known sequence of nucleotide bases from a DNA strand to detect a complementary sequence in the sample by means of base pairing.
  • double up — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • drop bear — a mythical creature said to live in the outback; it resembles an oversized koala with sharp teeth and drops from trees to devour unwary passers-by
  • droppable — Capable of being dropped (especially by an aircraft).
  • ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
  • embla pro — (messaging, tool)   An IMAP-compliant electronic mail client from WinSoft Products Ltd. EMBLA Pro allows you to use an IMAP mail server in a true client/server network manner, once you've connected to the IMAP server, you can organise messages into folders on the server and you can view messages and any attached files at the server before deciding whether or not to download them to your local system. IMAP allows the user to select individual message attachments to be viewed and/or downloaded. You can delete files and messages from the server, move or copy them to the local computer or leave them for future retrieval. EMBLA Pro also supports the standard POP3 protocol. Both POP3 and IMAP2 run over E-SMTP. The IMAP Unix daemons can support specific environments, for example, Sun MailTool attachments. All flavours of Unix are catered for with a suite of binary mail daemons, eg: SunSoft Solaris, HP, IBM and SCO. EMBLA conforms to the SMTP, E-SMTP, MIME and IMAP Internet standards - RFC1590 (RFC1521), RFC1522, RFC1426, RFC1425, RFC1176, RFC0822, RFC0821 and the draft update of RFC1176.
  • epibiosis — any relationship between two organisms in which one grows on the other but is not parasitic on it
  • epilobium — a plant from the genus Epilobium, such as willow-herb
  • euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
  • exponible — requiring further explanation, esp (in logic) of a proposition
  • exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
  • genophobe — A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
  • gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
  • goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
  • grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.
  • groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
  • gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
  • halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
  • homophobe — a person who fears or hates homosexuals and homosexuality.
  • hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
  • hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
  • ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
  • imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
  • moonprobe — an information-gathering spacecraft designed to pass close by or land on the lunar surface.
  • mysophobe — A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
  • neophobia — Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of anything new, novel, or unfamiliar.
  • neophobic — Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new.
  • objectpal — Object-oriented database language, part of Borland's MS-Windows version of Paradox.
  • obreption — Canon Law. fraud in obtaining or attempting to obtain something from an official. Compare subreption (def 1).
  • open bite — deformity: jaws do not close
  • open book — someone or something easily understood or interpreted; something very clear: The child's face is an open book.
  • open-book — someone or something easily understood or interpreted; something very clear: The child's face is an open book.
  • opposable — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
  • paderborn — a city in North Rhine–Westphalia, in NW Germany.
  • parboiled — to boil partially or for a short time; precook.
  • pasodoble — fast modern ballroom dance
  • peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
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