11-letter words containing p, i, t, a, u
- pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
- patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
- pay dispute — a disagreement between workers and employers concerning salary
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- pediculated — having a stalk or stalks
- peninsulate — to cause (land) to become peninsular
- penultimate — next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
- 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.
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- pisistratus — c605–527 b.c, tyrant of Athens 560–527 (father of Hipparchus and Hippias).
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
- 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.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- portraiture — the art or an instance of making portraits.
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- postulation — to ask, demand, or claim.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicate — to judge beforehand
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- 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.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- 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.
- pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
- pulsatility — pulsating; throbbing.
- 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.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- 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.
- punctuative — 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.
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.