11-letter words containing a, u, p
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- bedaux-plan — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- black stump — a long way off
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- break it up — stop fighting
- breaking-up — separation, or the action of separating, into smaller parts
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
- buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- bumper jack — a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper.
- bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
- bupivacaine — a local anaesthetic of long duration, used for nerve blocks
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- cactus pear — tuna2 .
- cake makeup — face makeup in the form of a cake, usually applied with a damp sponge.
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
- caniapiscau — a river in NE Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to the Larch River (Mélèzes) 575 miles (925 km) long.
- canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- caper sauce — sauce flavoured with capers
- capillitium — a mass of very fine threads interspersed among the spores of certain fungi
- capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment
- capitulated — Simple past tense and past participle of capitulate.
- capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
- cappuccinos — Plural form of cappuccino.
- capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
- caprimulgid — (zoology) Any of the Caprimulgidae, or nightjar family.
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- capsulizing — Present participle of capsulize.
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- cardophagus — a donkey
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.