11-letter words containing p, e, r, m, u, t
- peristylium — a peristyle.
- perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
- permutation — the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.
- perturbment — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- 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
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- port number — port
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- precomputer — designating the period prior to the introduction of computers; occurring or existing in this period
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pretty much — mostly
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- promptitude — promptness.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pteropodium — the foot of a pteropod.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- supersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
- supportment — the action of supporting
- supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
- suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
- temperature — a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trispermous — having three seeds.
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
- unpermitted — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- zx spectrum — (computer) Sinclair's first personal computer with a colour display. The Spectrum used the Zilog Z80 processor like its predecessors the ZX-80 and ZX-81. It was originally available in 16k and 48k versions using cassette tape and later grew to 128k and sprouted floppy disks. It had a wider and more solid case and a marginally better "dead flesh" keyboard. Unlike the earlier models, it didn't require the presence of a cold carton of milk to prevent it overheating. It was possibly the most popular home computer in the UK for many years. The TK-90X was a clone.