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12-letter words containing e, u, n, i

  • perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
  • pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
  • photoinduced — induced by light.
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pinch runner — a player sent into a game to replace a base runner.
  • pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plunge basin — a cavity at the base of a falls or cataract, formed by the action of the falling water.
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
  • pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premium bond — In Britain, premium bonds are numbered tickets that are sold by the government. Each month, a computer selects several numbers, and the people whose tickets have those numbers win money.
  • premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
  • pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • prime number — a positive integer that is not divisible without remainder by any integer except itself and 1, with 1 often excluded: The integers 2, 3, 5, and 7 are prime numbers.
  • product line — all of the products carried by a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • pseudoanemia — Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
  • pseudonymity — pseudonymous character.
  • pterosaurian — a pterosaur
  • public enemy — a person or thing considered a danger or menace to the public, especially a wanted criminal widely sought by the F.B.I. and local police forces.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • pudding rice — a type of short-grained rice that is suitable for making into a rice pudding
  • pudding-face — a human face that is big and fat and resembles a pudding
  • pudding-head — a stupid person
  • puddingstone — any conglomerate rock having dark-colored, rounded pebbles that are embedded in a light-colored, fine-grained matrix
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
  • puerto rican — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
  • pumice stone — abrasive stone used for exfoliating
  • pumice-stone — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
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