13-letter words containing p, u, l
- binary pulsar — a pulsar in a binary system.
- bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
- black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- bledisloe cup — a trophy competed for, usually annually, by New Zealand and Australia since 1932
- blood product — a pharmaceutical product made from blood, such as Factor VIII
- blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
- blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
- bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- buffalo plaid — a plaid with large blocks formed by the intersection of two different-color yarns, typically red and black.
- building plot — a piece of land on which a house can be built
- built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
- built-up roof — a usually flat or slightly sloped roof that is covered with a special material applied in sealed, waterproof layers.
- bull elephant — an adult male elephant
- bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
- burglar-proof — designed to be secure and to frustrate any attempted burglary
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- butyryl group — the univalent group C 4 H 7 O–.
- cacodyl group — the univalent group (CH 3) 2 As−, derived from arsine.
- cacophonously — In a cacophonous manner.
- calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
- callithumpian — relating to or resembling a callithump
- campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
- cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
- capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- capsule shell — A capsule shell is an outer skin in which a medicinal substance is contained.
- capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- celiac plexus — solar plexus (def 1).
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- cephalopodous — of, belonging to or relating to a cephalopod
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chemical pulp — wood pulp made from chemically treated and cooked wood fibers and used in the manufacture of better grades of paper.
- child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chylophyllous — having fleshy leaves, as certain desert plants.
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.