11-letter words containing a, p, u, r, t
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicate — to judge beforehand
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
- prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- proteinuria — the presence of abnormally large amounts of protein in the urine, usually resulting from kidney disease but sometimes from fever, excessive exercise, or other abnormal condition.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quarterpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
- quarterpipe — Alternative form of quarter-pipe.
- quartz lamp — a lamp consisting of an ultraviolet light source, as mercury vapor, contained in a fused-silica bulb that transmits ultraviolet light with little absorption.
- raptureless — without rapture
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- recuperator — a person or thing that recuperates.
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.