11-letter words containing p, a, u, s
- magnum opus — a great work, especially the chief work of a writer or artist: Proust's magnum opus is Remembrance of Things Past.
- mal du pays — homesickness.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- mauvais pas — a place that presents a particular difficulty on a climb or walk
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- multicampus — (of a university or organization) having multiple campuses or locations
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplanes — Plural form of multiplane.
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- nuclear sap — karyolymph
- nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
- nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
- nulliparous — a woman who has never borne a child.
- occupancies — Plural form of occupancy.
- occupations — Plural form of occupation.
- opera house — a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- outpatients — Plural form of outpatient.
- outspanning — Present participle of outspan.
- oxtail soup — soup made using the skinned tail of an ox
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
- palm sunday — the Sunday before Easter, celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- 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
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- parashurama — a Rama and avatar of Vishnu who rid the earth of Kshatriyas.
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
- parish pump — of only local interest; parochial
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.