11-letter words containing n, o, r, e, p, u
- perduellion — high treason
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- 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.
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- port number — port
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- progeniture — procreation
- proper noun — Grammar. a noun that is used to denote a particular person, place, or thing, as Lincoln, Sarah, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Hall.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- proteinuria — the presence of abnormally large amounts of protein in the urine, usually resulting from kidney disease but sometimes from fever, excessive exercise, or other abnormal condition.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
- pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.