6-letter words containing p
- bopper — a musician who specializes in bop.
- boskop — a prehistoric race of the late Pleistocene period in sub-Saharan Africa
- bowpot — a large vase or pot for cut flowers or small branches.
- box up — to keep in; surround or confine
- bpharm — Bachelor of Pharmacy
- bpmake — Aspirin
- bumper — Bumpers are bars at the front and back of a vehicle which protect it if it bumps into something.
- bunyip — a legendary monster said to inhabit swamps and lagoons of the Australian interior
- buppie — an affluent young Black person
- burlap — Burlap is a thick, rough fabric that is used for making sacks.
- burnup — the nuclear fuel consumed in a reactor, often measured as a percentage of the atoms of fuel that have undergone fission.
- burpee — a squat thrust that starts and ends in a standing position
- buy up — If you buy up land, property, or a commodity, you buy large amounts of it, or all that is available.
- bypass — If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly.
- bypast — past; bygone
- bypath — a little-used path or track, esp in the country
- byplay — action, gestures, etc. going on aside from the main action or conversation, as in a play
- caliph — A Caliph was a Muslim ruler.
- callop — an edible freshwater fish, Plectroplites ambiguus, of Australia, often golden or pale yellow in colour
- callup — Alternative spelling of call up.
- calpac — a large black brimless hat made of sheepskin or felt, worn by men in parts of the Near East
- cam-pc — (hardware) A cellular automata circuit board which is a hardware implementation from Automatrix of the MIT CAM-6 machine. It comes with dozens of experiments and applications.
- camped — If people are camped or camped out somewhere in the open air, they are living, staying, or waiting there, often in tents.
- camper — A camper is someone who is camping somewhere.
- campin — Robert. 1379–1444, Flemish painter, noted esp for his altarpieces: usually identified with the so-called Master of Flémalle
- cample — to argue
- camply — in a camp manner
- campos — a city in E Brazil, in E Rio de Janeiro state on the Paraíba River. Pop: 388 000 (2005 est)
- campus — A campus is an area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college.
- canape — Canapés are small pieces of biscuit or toast with food such as meat, cheese, or pâté on top. They are often served with drinks at parties.
- canopy — A canopy is a decorated cover, often made of cloth, which is placed above something such as a bed or a seat.
- capers — the flower buds of the caper plant, which are pickled and used as a condiment
- capful — the amount that a cap can hold
- capias — (formerly) a writ directing a sheriff or other officer to arrest a named person
- caping — a piece of land jutting into the sea or some other large body of water.
- capita — plural of caput.
- capivi — Alternative form of copaiba.
- caples — Plural form of caple.
- caplet — A caplet is an oval tablet of medicine.
- caplin — capelin.
- capone — Alphonse, called Al. 1899–1947, US gangster in Chicago during Prohibition
- capons — Plural form of capon.
- capote — a long cloak or soldier's coat, usually with a hood
- capped — a capital letter.
- capper — a person or device that caps something or makes caps
- capric — (of a type of acid) smelling of goats
- caprid — a member of the goat family
- capris — an island in W Italy, in the Bay of Naples: grottoes; resort. 5½ sq. mi. (14 sq. km).
- capsid — any heteropterous bug of the family Miridae (formerly Capsidae), most of which feed on plant tissues, causing damage to crops
- captan — a fungicide produced from mercaptan