15-letter words containing p, u, t, b
- put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
- sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
- subject pronoun — pronoun in nominative case
- suboptimization — a situation which is less than optimal
- subperiosteally — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- superbureaucrat — an important or highly powerful bureaucrat
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
- udmurt republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the basin of the middle Kama. Capital: Izhevsk. Pop: 1 570 500 (2002). Area: 42 100 sq km (16 250 sq miles)
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
- uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.