11-letter words containing n, o, s, u, p, r
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- 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.
- proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- 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.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shop around — compare prices
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- sugar spoon — a small spoon for serving granulated sugar, resembling but having a wider bowl than a teaspoon.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- supermodern — highly modern
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
- superperson — a person who transcends personal limits