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10-letter words containing u, p, b, i

  • paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
  • patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
  • perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
  • pine bluff — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
  • piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
  • pitot tube — (often lowercase) an instrument for measuring fluid velocity, consisting of a narrow tube, one end of which is open and faces upstream, the other end being connected to a manometer.
  • pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
  • plumb line — a cord with a lead bob attached to one end, used to determine perpendicularity, the depth of water, etc. Compare plumb (def 1).
  • prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
  • procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
  • producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • pubic hair — hair growing in genital area
  • pubic lice — small parasites that live in pubic hair. They are also found in the armpits and eyebrows
  • public act — public law (def 1).
  • public bar — (in a tavern or pub) the common section of a bar or barroom, not as exclusive, as quiet, or as comfortably furnished as the saloon section.
  • public eye — public attention or notice; limelight: a politician who keeps out of the public eye.
  • public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
  • publicised — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
  • publishers — a publishing company
  • publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
  • purblindly — in a purblind manner
  • republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
  • semipublic — partly or to some degree public.
  • spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
  • springbuck — springbok.
  • strip club — strip joint.
  • subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
  • suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
  • subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
  • subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
  • subspecies — a subdivision of a species, especially a geographical or ecological subdivision.
  • subspinous — situated beneath the spine's protruding vertebrae or 'bumps'
  • subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
  • superbeing — the fact of existing; existence (as opposed to nonexistence).
  • superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • suprapubic — above the pubic bone
  • thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
  • thumbprint — a mark or impression of the ventral surface of the last joint of the thumb.
  • tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
  • unbaptized — not baptized
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