10-letter words containing b, u, p, r, e
- re-plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- subpleural — situated under the pleura.
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- subproblem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
- subprocess — a process that is part of a larger process
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- super band — the band of frequencies between 216 and 600 megahertz, used for cable television channels and Citizens Band.
- super bowl — the annual championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.
- superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superblock — an area of city land larger than the usual block, treated according to a unified plan and generally closed to vehicular through traffic.
- superboard — a wooden board with exceptional properties of some kind
- superbrain — (computer) A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
- superjumbo — an extremely large twin-deck jet-propelled airliner that can carry over 500 passengers
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- unpeerable — incapable of having a peer or peers
- unprisable — not able to be prised or released from a grip
- unprizable — not worthy to be prized; of little worth.
- unprobated — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- upgradable — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upper body — body above the waist
- verb group — A verb group or verbal group consists of a verb, or of a main verb following a modal or one or more auxiliaries. Examples are 'walked', 'can see', and 'had been waiting'.