BP_(disambiguation)

BP has many meanings.

BP

In its capitalized form, BP can stand for:

Medicine

• Binding potential
• Blood Pressure
• British Pharmacopoeia

Archaeology, Geology

• Before Present

Businesses

• BP, an energy corporation formerly known as British Petroleum or BP Amoco

• BP Canada, the Canadian subsidiary

• IATA code for Air Botswana
• Bharat Petroleum, an Indian oil company
• Banco Popular, a financial institution in Puerto Rico
• Boston Pizza, a Canadian restaurant chain
• Broadcast Programming, a distributor of radio formats

Places

• Bechuanaland Protectorate, the forerunner of modern Botswana
• FIPS and (obsolete) NATO country code for the Solomon Islands

People

• B-P, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of the world Scouting movement
• Bambang Pamungkas (born 1980), Indonesian footballer
• Benny Parsons (1941-2007), NASCAR champion and commentator
• Bettie Page (born 1923), American 1950s pin-up model
• Bijou Phillips (born 1980), American actress, model, socialite, and singer
• Bill Paxton, (born 1955), American actor known for roles in A Simple Plan and Club Dread
• Bill Pullman (born 1953) American film, television, and stage actor known for roles in Space Balls and Independence Day
• Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1914–1982), Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960
• Bernard Pivot, (born 1935), French journalist and interviewer
• Billy Preston, (1946-2006), American musician
• Brad Pitt (born 1963), American movie star and activist
• Brian Pillman (1962–1997), American professional wrestler
• Bristol Palin (born 1991), daughter of US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

Miscellanea

• Baseball Prospectus, statistical website and series of annuals
• Before Present (sometimes "Before Physics"), a time scale used in many scientific disciplines to mean years before 1950; commonly used for dates established by radiocarbon dating
• Bell's Palsy, a generally temporary paralysis of the face
• Benzoyl peroxide, an acne and teeth whitening medicine, abbreviated as "BP" to modify a commercial name such as "Clearasil BP"
• Black Pearl, several things
• Bletchley Park, a British cryptography installation sometimes referred to as "BP" so that those making inquiries would assume the speaker meant British Petroleum without the speaker having to directly lie
• Bloc Party, a British indie rock band
• Blue Pikmin, a creature originally from the Pikmin series of video games
• Boerenpartij, a Dutch political party
• Bohlen-Pierce scale, a musical scale
• Boron phosphide
• British Parliamentary Style, a debating style
• British Pharmacopoeia, a collection of medical standards, abbreviated as "BP" to signal a conforming ingredient, as in "Hydrocortisone BP"
• IF Brommapojkarna, a Swedish football team
• Brooklyn Philharmonic
• Brown–Peterson cohomology
• A variant of the Mazda B engine
• Bridgewater Place, a skyscraper in Leeds, England

bp

The lower case form of bp may stand for:

Chemistry and medicine

• Boiling point, in chemistry
• Base pair, in genetics
• Blood pressure, in medicine
• Bipolar disorder, in psychiatry
• Binge/purge, a characteristic of bulimia nervosa

Other

• Basis point, in finance
• Batting practice, in baseball
• Beer pong, a drinking game
• Black powder, in pyrotechnics
• Boarding pass, in transport
• Blood play, in sex

Bp

The mixed case form of Bp may stand for:

• Bp, in genealogy, indicating a person is baptized
• Budapest, capital of Hungary
• Bp., placed after the name of a Christian saint, denoting that the saint was a bishop
• Bp star, in astronomy a peculiar star of class B
• Bubblegum pop, a genre of commercialized Pop music

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