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11-letter words containing o, p, u

  • outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
  • outstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of outstrip.
  • overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
  • overproduce — to produce more of (a product or commodity) than is required
  • own up (to) — to confess (to)
  • oxtail soup — soup made using the skinned tail of an ox
  • oxysulphide — a compound containing an element combined with oxygen and sulphur
  • packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
  • palace coup — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
  • palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
  • pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
  • panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
  • paper round — job delivering newspapers
  • paper route — A paper route is the same as a paper round.
  • paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
  • papovavirus — any of a group of DNA-containing human and animal viruses, including polyoma viruses and some papillomaviruses, most of which produce tumors.
  • papyraceous — papery.
  • parabolanus — a member of an early Christian brotherhood in Alexandria and Constantinople who helped the sick in the times of plague
  • paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
  • paramountly — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
  • parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
  • parodontium — periodontium.
  • parturition — the process of bringing forth young.
  • pass around — distribute, circulate
  • passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
  • passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
  • peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
  • peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
  • pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • pedetentous — progressing gradually; proceeding cautiously
  • pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
  • pediococcus — any of several spherical, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, producing acid and clouding in beer and wort.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
  • pentagynous — (of plants) belonging to the order Pentagynia, characterized by the presence of five styles or pistils
  • pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • pentium pro — (processor)   (Known as "P6" during development) Intel's successor to the Pentium processor, in development Jan 1995, generally available 1995-11-01. The P6 has an internal RISC architecture with a CISC-RISC translator, 3-way superscalar execution, and out-of order execution (or "speculative execution", which Intel calls "Dynamic Execution"). It also features branch prediction and register renaming, and is superpipelined (14 stages). The P6 is made as a two-chip assembly: the first chip is the CPU and 16 kilobyte first-level cache (5.5 million transistors) and the other is a 256 (or 512) kilobyte second-level cache (15 million transistors). The first version has a clock rate of 133 Mhz and consumes about 20W of power. It is about twice as fast as the 100 MHz Pentium. The original 0.35 micron versions of the Pentium Pro released on 1995-11-01 run at 150 and 166 Mhz for desktop machines and up to 200 Mhz for servers. Heat disspation is about 20 Watts. The Pentium Pro is optimised for 32-bit software and runs 16-bit software slower than the original Pentium. The successor was the Pentium II.
  • 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.
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • 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.
  • perpetuator — to make perpetual.
  • perquisitor — the first person to own property that has subsequently been handed down to his heirs
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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