11-letter words containing c, r, u, i, s
- outcrossing — Present participle of outcross.
- outsourcing — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- overcurious — Excessively curious.
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- 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
- particulars — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- party music — music for or at a party
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- picturesque — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- picturising — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- piscivorous — adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating.
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- promiscuous — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- pump prices — petrol prices
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quick grass — the couch grass, Agropyron repens.
- quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- radiculitis — inflammation of a spinal nerve root.
- radiocesium — cesium 137.
- reclusively — in a reclusive manner, as or like a recluse; reclusely
- recursively — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- reductivism — reductionism.
- reinsurance — the process or business of reinsuring.
- relicensure — the process of being licensed again to practise a particular profession
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- resubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- resuscitant — a person or thing that resuscitates
- resuscitate — to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
- ricinus oil — castor oil.
- ritualistic — adherence to or insistence on ritual.
- roots music — reggae, esp when regarded as authentic and uncommercialized