11-letter words containing l, o, u, t, r, p
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- petrol pump — a device at a filling station that is used to deliver petrol to the tank of a car and which displays the quantity, quality, and usually the cost of the petrol delivered
- pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- prolocutrix — a female prolocutor
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- purportless — without purport
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
- superpolite — extremely polite
- supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
- supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
- supracostal — above the rib
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- tolyl group — any of three univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 7 H 7 –, derived from toluene.
- tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
- turtle soup — soup made from turtle flesh, usually of the green turtle
- upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.