10-letter words containing p, u, t, b
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- prepuberty — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- puberulent — minutely pubescent.
- public act — public law (def 1).
- pull about — to handle roughly
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- put to bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- put-up job — a plan or an event that has been arranged secretly in order to trick or deceive somebody
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- strip club — strip joint.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcompact — an automobile that is smaller than a compact.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- suboctuple — in the proportion or ratio of one to eight
- suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
- subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
- thumbprint — a mark or impression of the ventral surface of the last joint of the thumb.
- tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
- tuboplasty — surgical repair of one or both Fallopian tubes
- turbo pump — a turbine powered pump
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- unbaptized — not baptized
- unprobated — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- untappable — to strike with a light but audible blow or blows; hit with repeated, slight blows: He tapped the door twice.
- uplift bra — a brassiere for lifting and supporting the breasts