11-letter words containing p, l, a, u
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- quadripedal — Four-footed.
- quadrupedal — four-footed.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- quartz lamp — a lamp consisting of an ultraviolet light source, as mercury vapor, contained in a fused-silica bulb that transmits ultraviolet light with little absorption.
- raptureless — without rapture
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- recuperable — capable of recuperation
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- santa paula — a city in SW California.
- sapiosexual — a person who finds intelligence to be a sexually attractive quality in others.
- scarlet cup — a small, fleshy, saucer-shaped fungus, Sarcoscypha coccinea, of the family Sarcoscyphaceae, marked by a scarlet inner surface and white exterior, seen on fallen branches in the spring.
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- scrap value — what sth is worth for recycling or reuse
- semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- sesquipedal — given to using long words.
- sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
- sinupallial — (of lamellibranchs) having an impression of the sinus on the pallium
- slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
- soap bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- soap-bubble — a bubble of soapsuds.
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- 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.
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spiritually — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spiritualty — Often, spiritualties. ecclesiastical property or revenue.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation