10-letter words containing p, o, e
- baseperson — (baseball, softball) A fielder (of either gender) positioned near a base.
- basophiles — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- be of help — If someone or something is of help, they make a situation easier or better.
- beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beechdrops — a North American flowering plant, Epifagus virginiana, which is parasitic on beech trees
- beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
- bellperson — a bellhop.
- belly flop — a dive into water in which the body lands horizontally
- belly-flop — to do a belly flop, as in diving or sledding.
- bench stop — a metal device set flush with the top of a workbench and having a portion able to be raised to stop longitudinal movement of an object placed against it.
- bibliopegy — the art of binding books
- bibliopole — a dealer in books, esp rare or decorative ones
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- biographee — a person whose biography has been written
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- biopoiesis — the development of living matter from nonliving matter, esp considered as an evolutionary process
- biopolymer — a large molecule in a living organism
- bioprocess — a method or operation of preparing a biological material, especially a product of genetic engineering, for commercial use.
- biospheric — relating to the biosphere
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- bisphenoid — a tetrahedral form, each edge of which is bisected by the perpendicular bisecting the edge that does not intersect it.
- black pope — the head of the Jesuit order (so called from the power he once possessed and from the black habit worn by the order).
- bladderpod — any of several plants belonging to the genera Alyssoides and Lesquerella, of the mustard family, having inflated seed pods.
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- blue phlox — a plant, Phlox divaricata, of eastern North America, having creeping, rooting stems and mauve flowers.
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
- boarded-up — with windows and doors covered with boards for security
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- bone up on — If you bone up on a subject, you try to find out about it or remind yourself of what you have already learned about it.
- bonnet top — a top to a secretary, highboy, etc., following in outline a broken pediment on the front.
- book price — the value of a car as defined by the manufacturers or other accredited organization
- bookkeeper — A bookkeeper is a person whose job is to keep an accurate record of the money that is spent and received by a business or other organization.
- borah peak — a mountain in central Idaho, in the Lost River Range: highest peak in Idaho. 12,662 feet (3861 meters).
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
- bottle-top — a cap on the top of a bottle
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
- bread shop — a baker's shop
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
- broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663