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12-letter words containing o, u, l, e

  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
  • phenyl group — the univalent group C 6 H 5 –, derived from benzene.
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • plecopterous — relating to the order Plecoptera or stoneflies
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
  • pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
  • plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • plumulaceous — having the texture of down.
  • pneumatology — Theology. doctrine concerning the Holy Spirit. the belief in intermediary spirits between humans and God.
  • pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
  • pneumonology — the study of the respiratory system
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • pollen count — a count of the amount of pollen in the air, based on the average of the number of pollen grains that collect on slides exposed to the air for a given period of time.
  • pollutedness — the state of being polluted
  • polybutylene — any of several polymers of butylene, used chiefly in the manufacture of lubricants and synthetic rubber.
  • polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • polynucleate — having many nuclei.
  • polyoestrous — polyestrous.
  • polypetalous — having a corolla of separate petals.
  • polysepalous — having a calyx of separate or unconnected sepals.
  • polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
  • power supply — power supply unit
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
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