14-letter words containing i, b, u, p, r
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- puerto barrios — a seaport in E Guatemala.
- purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
- sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
- spanish burton — any of several tackles employing a runner in addition to the fall.
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- submicroscopic — too small to be seen through a microscope.
- subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
- subscribership — 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.
- subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
- superambitious — extremely ambitious, highly ambitious
- superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superincumbent — lying or resting on something else.
- support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
- supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- tatar republic — a constituent republic of W Russia, around the confluence of the Volga and Kama Rivers. Capital: Kazan. Pop: 3 779 800 (2002). Area: 68 000 sq km (26 250 sq miles)
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upper sideband — the frequency band above the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas