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11-letter words containing a, p, r, e, s, u

  • houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
  • hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
  • hypercasual — Extremely casual.
  • hypersexual — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • insuperable — incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted: an insuperable barrier.
  • insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
  • intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
  • iteroparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit more than once (usually many times) before dying
  • jumpmasters — Plural form of jumpmaster.
  • jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
  • last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
  • lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
  • leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
  • loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
  • lunarscapes — Plural form of lunarscape.
  • maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
  • maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
  • mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
  • mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
  • neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
  • nuclear sap — karyolymph
  • opera house — a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
  • outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
  • pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
  • papyraceous — papery.
  • parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
  • parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
  • parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
  • pass muster — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
  • pasteurella — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pasturella, certain species of which are parasitic and pathogenic for humans and animals.
  • pasteurised — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurized — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurizer — an apparatus for pasteurizing milk and other liquids.
  • 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.
  • pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
  • pastureless — without pasture, free of pasture
  • pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • perlustrate — to inspect thoroughly; to make a thorough examination of (something), esp to intercept and read (letters) for purposes of surveillance; to travel through and survey (a region)
  • perpetuates — to make perpetual.
  • persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
  • 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.
  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
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