11-letter words containing o, p, r, t, u, n
- 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.
- 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.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- 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.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- 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.
- 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.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- 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
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- progeniture — procreation
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- propinquity — nearness in place; proximity.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- rumgumption — good sense
- 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
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- 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.
- superstrong — extremely strong
- supportment — the action of supporting
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.