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11-letter words containing p, u, e, b

  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • east punjab — the eastern part of the former province of Punjab, in British India: now part of Punjab state, India.
  • go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
  • goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
  • implausible — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
  • insuperable — incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted: an insuperable barrier.
  • insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
  • irreputable — (obsolete) disreputable.
  • judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
  • kuiper belt — a disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock, believed to be the source of comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years. Compare Oort cloud.
  • make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
  • manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • mumbletypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • newburyport — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • numberplate — Alternative spelling of number plate.
  • opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • para rubber — India rubber obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, and other species of the same genus of tropical South America.
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • peel rubber — to accelerate an automobile very rapidly, as in a drag race
  • perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbment — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • pickup tube — camera tube.
  • pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
  • port number — port
  • post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
  • postpuberty — the period after puberty
  • pouncet box — a small perfume box with a perforated lid.
  • powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
  • preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
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