14-letter words containing p, u, b, l
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public opinion — the collective opinion of many people on some issue, problem, etc., especially as a guide to action, decision, or the like.
- 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 statute — public law (def 1).
- public utility — a business enterprise, as a public-service corporation, performing an essential public service and regulated by the federal, state, or local government. Compare utility (def 3).
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- puerto cabello — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- purbeck marble — a fossil-rich limestone that takes a high polish: used for building, etc
- purple boneset — joe-pye weed (def 1).
- putrescibility — liable to become putrid.
- queens problem — eight queens puzzle
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- rumbledethumps — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- 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)
- self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
- self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
- stubble-jumper — a prairie grain farmer
- sub-peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- subproletariat — the poorest group within the working class
- sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
- superimposable — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- supportability — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- susceptibility — state or character of being susceptible: susceptibility to disease.
- susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
- susceptible to — liable to
- suspender belt — garter belt.
- suspensibility — capable of being suspended.
- tall buttercup — a Eurasian buttercup, Ranunculus acris, naturalized in North American fields and meadows, having a tall stem and shiny yellow flowers.
- 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)
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
- umbrella plant — an African plant, Cyperus alternifolius, of the sedge family, that has several stems growing directly upward from a mass of roots and an umbrella-shaped cluster of leaves at the top of each stem.
- unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
- undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
- undecomposable — indecomposable or unable to be decomposed
- unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
- unpalatability — the quality or state of being unpalatable
- unpassableness — the quality or condition of being unpassable
- unpremeditable — capable of being premeditated
- unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
- unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
- unrecapturable — not able to be recaptured or brought back
- unreproducible — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- unsaponifiable — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unsplinterable — unable to be splintered