12-letter words containing b, s, u, p
- pause button — a button on a video or music player which can be pressed to temporarily stop the playing of the recording
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- plausibility — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
- prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- press bureau — an organization or a department whose function is press-agentry.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- public goods — services such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public
- public house — British. a tavern.
- public works — government-funded construction
- purblindness — the state of being purblind
- rubber stamp — handheld printing tool
- rubber-stamp — to imprint with a rubber stamp.
- rubbish dump — a place or area where waste materials are dumped
- rumble strip — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
- ship biscuit — hardtack.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- spiral-bound — having a spiral binding.
- spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
- spun-bonding — a process for forming nonwoven fabrics, usually of limited durability, by bonding continuous-filament synthetic fibers immediately after extrusion.
- stirrup bone — the stapes, one of the three bones of the middle ear
- sub-parallel — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- sub-tropical — Sub-tropical places have a climate that is warm and wet, and are often near tropical regions.
- subapostolic — of or relating to the era after that of the Apostles
- subcomponent — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
- subduplicate — of the square root of ratios
- subepidermal — just below the epidermis or skin
- subinspector — a secondary or assistant inspector
- sublapsarian — infralapsarianism.
- suboccipital — situated below the occipital bone or the occipital lobe of the brain.
- subopercular — of or relating to the suboperculum
- suboperculum — a bone in fishes behind the operculum or gill covering
- subparagraph — a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
- subprincipal — an assistant or deputy principal.
- subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- subsoil plow — a plow for stirring the subsoil, usually without disturbing the surface.
- subspecialty — a lesser or minor specialty: a cinematographer with a subspecialty of portrait photography.