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10-letter words containing l, a, p, u

  • ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
  • ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
  • plug gauge — an accurately machined plug used for checking the diameter of a hole
  • plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
  • plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
  • pluriaxial — having several axes; specif., having flowers on secondary shoots
  • plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
  • plutolatry — the worship of wealth or material possessions
  • pole vault — sports event: high jump using a pole
  • pole-vault — to execute a pole vault.
  • pollaiuolo — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1429–98, Italian sculptor, painter, and goldsmith.
  • polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
  • polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
  • pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
  • popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
  • popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • population — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
  • postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
  • postocular — located behind the eye
  • postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
  • postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
  • postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
  • postulatum — a postulate
  • poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
  • pourparler — an informal preliminary conference.
  • pozzuolana — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
  • praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
  • pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
  • prefuneral — the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
  • prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
  • prenatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
  • prenuclear — of or relating to the era before the development of nuclear weapons.
  • prenuptial — before marriage.
  • prepuberal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
  • prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
  • presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
  • procedural — procedural language
  • processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • procurable — obtainable.
  • promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
  • propylaeum — Often, propylaea. a vestibule or entrance to a temple area or other enclosure, especially when elaborate or of architectural importance.
  • prothallus — prothallium.
  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
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