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11-letter words containing u, l, p

  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blood group — Someone's blood group is the type of blood that they have in their body. There are four main types: A, B, AB, and O.
  • blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • blue spruce — a spruce tree, Picea pungens glauca, native to the Rocky Mountains of North America, having blue-green needle-like leaves
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • bottom plug — A bottom plug is a bridge or cement seal placed near the bottom of the well in order to shut it off.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
  • bubble wrap — a type of polythene wrapping containing many small air pockets, used as a protective covering when transporting breakable goods
  • 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.
  • bumblepuppy — a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.
  • bump uglies — to have sexual intercourse
  • bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • 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.
  • butyl group — any of four univalent isomeric groups having the formula C 4 H 9 –.
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capaciously — In a capacious manner.
  • 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.
  • caprimulgid — (zoology) Any of the Caprimulgidae, or nightjar family.
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • capsulizing — Present participle of capsulize.
  • capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
  • catapultier — a person who fires a catapult
  • catapulting — Present participle of catapult.
  • chapultepec — a rocky hill in Mexico City: captured (Sept., 1847) in an American assault led by Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican War
  • cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
  • circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
  • 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.
  • clean up on — to defeat; beat
  • close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
  • cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
  • 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
  • colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
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