11-letter words containing p, u, t
- bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
- bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
- belt pulley — a pulley used to operate a conveyor belt
- big picture — a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue or problem.
- black stump — a long way off
- bonus point — an additional point in a game, a sporting competition, or any similar scheme in which points can be awarded
- bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- break it up — stop fighting
- breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
- breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- build up to — If you build up to something you want to do or say, you try to prepare people for it by starting to do it or introducing the subject gradually.
- bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bustle pipe — an annular pipe distributing hot air to the tuyères.
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
- buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
- buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
- butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
- cactus pear — tuna2 .
- campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capillitium — a mass of very fine threads interspersed among the spores of certain fungi
- capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment
- capitulated — Simple past tense and past participle of capitulate.
- capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
- catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
- catapulting — Present participle of catapult.
- catch up on — to engage in more (work, sleep, etc.) so as to compensate for earlier neglect
- cattywampus — catawampus
- center jump — a jump ball between the centers of the opposing teams, held in the circle at the center of the court, as at the beginning of each period.
- centerpunch — to mark with a center punch.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chug report — (humour) From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- cluster cup — aecium.
- clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat