11-letter words containing o, u, t, n, a
- overcaution — excessive caution
- 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.
- parodontium — periodontium.
- parturition — the process of bringing forth young.
- 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.
- 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
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- plant louse — aphid.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- postulation — to ask, demand, or claim.
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- 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.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- pullulation — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- punctuation — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
- quantum dot — (physics) (Or "single-electron transistor") A location capable of containing a single electrical charge; i.e., a single electron of Coulomb charge. Physically, quantum dots are nanometer-size semiconductor structures in which the presence or absence of a quantum electron can be used to store information. See also: quantum cell, quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
- quart minor — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.