11-letter words containing o, p, u
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- 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
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phosphonium — the positively charged group PH 4 + .
- phosphorous — containing trivalent phosphorus.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- photo-mount — a heavy paper or board suitable for mounting photographs.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pilot study — trial done for research
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- piscicolous — (of an organism) living on or in fishes
- piscivorous — adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- piston pump — A piston pump is a pump which moves fluid by the movement up and down of a disk or short cylinder inside a tube.
- pittosporum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Pittosporum, native to warm regions of the Old World, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive foliage, flowers, or fruit.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- plant louse — aphid.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play possum — opossum.
- pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- plum tomato — an egg-shaped or oblong variety of tomato.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- plunge pool — the water in a plunge basin.
- 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.
- plutologist — a person who has expertise in plutology
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- pn junction — the boundary between two regions in a single crystal of a semiconductor: one region contains an electron acceptor and the other an electron donor
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns