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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
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