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15-letter words containing p, u, b, l

  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • insuperableness — The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
  • kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
  • keyboard plaque — (jargon)   The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard plaque."
  • lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • lumbar puncture — Medicine/Medical. puncture into the arachnoid membrane of the spinal cord, in the lumbar region, and withdrawal of spinal fluid, performed for diagnosis of the fluid, injection of dye for imaging, or administration of anesthesia or medication.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • motoring public — the population that drive road vehicles
  • multi-binprolog — (language)   A multi-threaded Linda-style parallel extension to BinProlog for Solaris 2.3. Version: 3.30.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • non-culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
  • non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • non-susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
  • nonreproducible — Unable to be reproduced; not reproducible.
  • nullarbor plain — a treeless, semiarid area of S Australia, contiguous to the Great Australian Bight.
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • paurometabolous — designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • picture library — A picture library is a collection of photographs that is held by a particular company or organization. Newspapers or publishers can pay to use the photographs in their publications.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • plug compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plug-compatible — of or relating to computers or peripheral devices that are functionally equivalent to, and may be substituted for, other models.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • plumber's snake — snake (def 3a).
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • polyisobutylene — a polymer of isobutylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
  • public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
  • public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
  • publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
  • publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
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