11-letter words containing b, u, p, i
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- public bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the general interests of the people at large or of the whole community.
- public debt — national debt.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public good — benefit of all people
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- public sale — auction (def 1).
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- publishment — publication.
- pudibundity — prudery
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- republisher — a person who republishes
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- rubbish tip — dump for refuse
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- sub-species — A sub-species of a plant or animal is one of the types that a particular species is divided into.
- subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
- submultiple — a number that is contained by another number an integral number of times without a remainder: The number 3 is a submultiple of 12.
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subsea pipe — A subsea pipe is a pipeline on the ocean bed for transporting oil or gas.
- subspecific — of, relating to, or of the nature of a subspecies.
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- superscribe — to write (words, letters, one's name, address, etc.) above or on something.
- susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
- suspectible — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- suspendible — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- suspensible — capable of being suspended.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.