11-letter words containing e, l, u, c, i
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nucleotides — any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in RNA the thymine base being replaced by uracil.
- numerically — of or relating to numbers; of the nature of a number.
- octuplicate — a group, series, or set of eight identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- oecumenical — general; universal.
- particulate — of, relating to, or composed of distinct particles.
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- peculiarize — to make peculiar, unusual, distinguished, etc.
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pediculated — having a stalk or stalks
- pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
- pellucidity — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- penicillium — any fungus of the genus Penicillium, certain species of which are used in cheesemaking and as the source of penicillin.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- public debt — national debt.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- public sale — auction (def 1).
- publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- quadricycle — a vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
- quicksilver — the metallic element mercury.
- quiescently — being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- quitclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of quitclaim.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- recirculate — to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point: Blood circulates throughout the body.
- reclusively — in a reclusive manner, as or like a recluse; reclusely
- recruitable — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- recultivate — to plant, tend, harvest, or improve (plants) again
- recurringly — occurring or appearing again.
- recursively — pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- reductively — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- reinoculate — to inoculate again
- relaunching — an act or instance of launching something again.
- relicensure — the process of being licensed again to practise a particular profession