15-letter words containing r, u, b, e, p, l
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- public property — Public property is land and other assets that belong to the general public and not to a private owner.
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- 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.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- subreptitiously — in a subreptitious manner
- superabundantly — very or too abundantly
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- tablet computer — a number of sheets of writing paper, business forms, etc., fastened together at the edge; pad.
- 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)
- umbrella policy — An umbrella policy is a policy that provides excess limits and gives additional excess coverage over the normal limits and coverage of liability policies.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- underpublicized — lacking publicity
- uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- unpronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
- 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.