12-letter words containing a, p, u
- beauty sleep — sleep, esp sleep before midnight
- beauty strip — a narrow forest corridor left uncut alongside a road or body of water.
- beer parlour — a room in a tavern, hotel, etc in which beer is served
- benzal group — the bivalent group C 7 H 6 –, derived from benzaldehyde.
- 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
- 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
- breath group — a sequence of sounds articulated in the course of a single exhalation; an utterance or part of an utterance produced between pauses for breath.
- broad jumper — a participant in the long jump.
- buck private — a common soldier
- buck's party — a party for men only, esp one held for a man before he is married
- bumper guard — either of two vertical crosspieces attached to a bumper of a motor vehicle to prevent it from locking bumpers with another vehicle.
- bumping race — (esp at Oxford and Cambridge) a race in which rowing eights start an equal distance one behind the other and each tries to bump the boat in front
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- butter paper — a semi-transparent, waterproof paper used for wrapping butter, etc
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- 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.
- camper truck — a pickup truck having a camper mounted on the truck body.
- cap'n crunch — Captain Crunch
- 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 sounion — Cape, a cape in E central Greece, SE of Athens, at the tip of the Attica peninsula, in W Aegean Sea.
- cape-lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
- caper spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, producing latex that is considered a possible source of crude oil and gasoline.
- 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.
- captiousness — The state of being captious.
- carpophagous — feeding on fruit
- centuplicate — to increase 100 times
- chandragupta — Greek name Sandracottos. died ?297 bc, ruler of N India, who founded the Maurya dynasty (325) and defeated Seleucus (?305)
- change purse — A change purse is a very small bag that people, especially women, keep their money in.
- chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- chapterhouse — the building attached to a cathedral, collegiate church, or religious house in which the chapter meets
- 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.
- 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
- chota nagpur — a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica
- choux pastry — a very light pastry made with eggs, used for eclairs, etc
- chump change — Slang. a small or insignificant amount of money.
- 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.
- cladosporium — any of the species of fungi in the genus Cladosporium