11-letter words containing b, e, u
- opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
- order about — to bully or domineer
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbalance.
- outbreaking — The act of breaking out.
- outbreeding — to breed selected individuals outside the limits of the breed or variety.
- outer banks — chain of long, narrow, sandy islands, along the coast of N.C.
- outnumbered — to exceed in number.
- over-budget — costing or being more than the amount alloted or budgeted: The building is half-finished and it's already overbudget.
- overblouses — Plural form of overblouse.
- overburdens — Plural form of overburden.
- overburthen — to overburden
- overdubbing — Present participle of overdub.
- overobvious — too obvious
- oxford blue — a dark blue colour
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- para rubber — India rubber obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, and other species of the same genus of tropical South America.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
- peel rubber — to accelerate an automobile very rapidly, as in a drag race
- perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
- perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturbment — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- pickup tube — camera tube.
- pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
- pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- port number — port
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postpuberty — the period after puberty
- pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- pressburger — Emeric (ˈɛmərɪk). 1902–88, Hungarian film writer and producer, living in Britain: best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Michael Powell. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), I Know Where I'm Going (1945), and A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.