11-letter words containing p, i, c, u, l
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- piscicolous — (of an organism) living on or in fishes
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- prolocutrix — a female prolocutor
- promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- public bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the general interests of the people at large or of the whole community.
- public debt — national debt.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public good — benefit of all people
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- public sale — auction (def 1).
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- speculatist — a person who speculates
- speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spondulicks — money; cash.