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