12-letter words containing u, l, p
- backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
- barge couple — either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
- 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
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- bus topology — bus
- 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.
- 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
- cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
- capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
- capitularies — Plural form of capitulary.
- capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
- capitulation — the act of capitulating
- capitulatory — the act of capitulating.
- capriciously — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
- chlorophytum — any plant of the genus Chlorophytum, esp C. elatum variegatum, grown as a pot plant for its long narrow leaves with a light central stripe, and characterized by the production of offsets at the end of long scapes: family Liliaceae
- chorus pedal — an electronic device that creates the effect of more than one sound from a single source by combining a short delay with slight deviations in pitch
- churchpeople — people belonging to a church
- cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
- cladocarpous — pleurocarpous.