15-letter words containing u, p, b, i
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
- 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 speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
- public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
- public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
- publicity agent — A publicity agent is a person whose job is to make sure that a large number of people know about a person, show, or event so that they are successful.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- put the boot in — If someone puts the boot in, they attack another person by saying something cruel, often when the person is already feeling weak or upset.
- reproducibility — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
- san luis obispo — a city in W California.
- second republic — the republic established in France in 1848 and replaced by the Second Empire in 1852.
- sleeping beauty — a beautiful princess, the heroine of a popular fairy tale, awakened from a charmed sleep by the kiss of the prince who is her true love.
- snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
- special subject — an area of knowledge in which someone specializes
- spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
- spiny cocklebur — a cocklebur, Xanthium spinosum, introduced into North America from Europe.
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- sub-corporation — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
- sublapsarianism — infralapsarianism.
- suboptimization — a situation which is less than optimal
- 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
- suppressibility — the capacity to be suppressed
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- 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.
- unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
- uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- underpublicized — lacking publicity
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
- unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
- uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes