12-letter words containing o, u, b
- orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- order number — a number associated with a purchase or merchandise order
- orion nebula — a luminous nebula in the constellation Orion, in the center of Orion's sword.
- osco-umbrian — a group of languages, usually classified as Italic, that contains Oscan and Umbrian.
- out at elbow — ragged or impoverished
- out of plumb — not vertical
- out-building — a detached building subordinate to a main building.
- outbalancing — Present participle of outbalance.
- outbuildings — Plural form of outbuilding.
- outnumbering — Present participle of outnumber.
- over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overburdened — Excessively burdened.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
- 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
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- 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.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- phone number — of individual, business
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- plymouth bay — a small, well-protected bay on the coast of Massachusetts; the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- polybutylene — any of several polymers of butylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants and synthetic rubber.
- poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- 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.
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- probouleutic — relating to the Athenian council, which discussed matters before submitting them to the general assembly
- 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.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- 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 money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
- public works — government-funded construction