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11-letter words containing l, e, u, c, i, p

  • 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.
  • reduplicate — to double; repeat.
  • res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
  • specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
  • specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
  • speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatist — a person who speculates
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • super-slick — very well-executed or presented
  • supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
  • suspectible — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • tegucigalpa — a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa.
  • telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
  • turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
  • undisplaced — lacking a home, country, etc.
  • unempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
  • usucaptible — able to be taken possession of
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