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11-letter words containing u, p, b, r

  • opera buffa — an Italian farcical comic opera originating in the 18th century and containing recitativo secco, patter songs, and ensemble finales.
  • opprobrious — conveying or expressing opprobrium, as language or a speaker: opprobrious invectives.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • para rubber — India rubber obtained from the tree Hevea brasiliensis, of the spurge family, and other species of the same genus of tropical South America.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • peel rubber — to accelerate an automobile very rapidly, as in a drag race
  • perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • perturbment — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • port number — port
  • postpuberty — the period after puberty
  • pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • pouring box — tundish (def 2).
  • powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
  • powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
  • preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory
  • preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
  • prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
  • presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
  • presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
  • pressburger — Emeric (ˈɛmərɪk). 1902–88, Hungarian film writer and producer, living in Britain: best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Michael Powell. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), I Know Where I'm Going (1945), and A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  • probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • procerebrum — (in certain invertebrates) the front part of the central nervous system
  • produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
  • protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
  • protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • purple book — 1.   (publication)   The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2.   (publication)   The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
  • putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
  • rear bumper — the bar at the back of a vehicle which protects it if it bumps into something
  • recuperable — capable of recuperation
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