12-letter words containing p, u
- beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
- beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
- beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
- belle epoque — the period of comfortable well-established life in Europe before World War I
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- benzyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
- bicycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
- black plague — Great Plague.
- black spruce — a coniferous tree, Picea mariana, of the northern regions of North America, growing mostly in cold bogs and having dark green needles
- blood supply — the flow of blood to different parts of the body
- blue pointer — a large shark, Isuropsis mako, of Australian coastal waters, having a blue back and pointed snout
- blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
- 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.
- boskop skull — a portion of a human skull found in South Africa, of undetermined relationship and geological age: formerly associated with a hypothetical Boskop race
- bouillon cup — a small, bowl-shaped vessel, with two handles, in which bouillon is served.
- brass plaque — a brass plate screwed to a wall or other structure and engraved with a name or other information, esp to commemorate an important event
- 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.
- broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
- 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
- bulldog clip — A bulldog clip is a metal clip with a spring lever that opens and closes two flat pieces of metal. It is used for holding papers together.
- 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.
- bumble-puppy — a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- burner phone — a disposable cell phone with prepaid service, often used with the intent to temporarily obscure the true identity or contact information of the user: Members of the cartel used burner phones to evade federal surveillance. I always give out the number from my burner phone when I’m going on a blind date.
- 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
- buying group — an association of companies who use their combined purchasing power to achieve the best prices from suppliers
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying spree — the hurried acquisition by a company, of goods, assets, or other companies
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- calcutta cup — a trophy competed for annually by England and Scotland since 1879
- caliper rule — a graduated rule with one sliding jaw and one that is stationary
- camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
- camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- cap'n crunch — Captain Crunch
- cape agulhas — a headland in South Africa, the southernmost point of the African continent
- cape buffalo — a large, black, nearly hairless, very fierce buffalo (Syncerus caffer) of South Africa, with horns joined at the bases to form a helmetlike structure