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12-letter words containing p, u, t

  • barbecue pit — a trench in which wood or charcoal is burned for barbecuing
  • bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
  • battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
  • bean sprouts — the sprouts of newly germinated mung beans, eaten as a vegetable, esp in Chinese dishes
  • beat up (on) — to give a beating to; thrash
  • beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
  • beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • bolt upright — If someone is sitting or standing bolt upright, they are sitting or standing very straight.
  • booster pump — A booster pump is a pump which is used where pressure is low and needs to be increased.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • buck private — a common soldier
  • buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bully pulpit — If someone in a prominent job or position publicly expresses their opinions about a particular subject, you can say that they are using their job or position as a bully pulpit.
  • bus topology — bus
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
  • calcutta cup — a trophy competed for annually by England and Scotland since 1879
  • camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
  • cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
  • capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
  • capitulation — the act of capitulating
  • capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
  • captiousness — The state of being captious.
  • center punch — a steel punch for marking a spot where a hole is to be drilled
  • centre punch — a small steel tool with a conical tip used to punch a small indentation at the location of the centre of a hole to be drilled
  • centuplicate — to increase 100 times
  • chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
  • chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
  • chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
  • chlorophytum — any plant of the genus Chlorophytum, esp C. elatum variegatum, grown as a pot plant for its long narrow leaves with a light central stripe, and characterized by the production of offsets at the end of long scapes: family Liliaceae
  • chota nagpur — a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica
  • choux pastry — a very light pastry made with eggs, used for eclairs, etc
  • cinque ports — an association of ports on the SE coast of England, originally consisting of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, which from late Anglo-Saxon times provided ships for the king's service in return for the profits of justice in their courts. The Cinque Ports declined with the growth of other ports and surrendered their charters in 1685
  • circumscript — Rare. limited or confined.
  • cluster pack — a package containing a collection of related goods, sold as a single unit
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • clutch pedal — The clutch pedal is the pedal by which the driver of a vehicle operates the clutch.
  • clutch plate — a plate in a vehicle's clutch that connects to the transmission
  • coconut palm — A coconut palm is a tall tree on which coconuts grow.
  • coleopterous — belonging to the order Coleoptera
  • colour depth — bits per pixel
  • come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
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