10-letter words containing p, l, e, n, u
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- puberulent — minutely pubescent.
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- pummelling — the action of striking repeatedly with or as with the fists
- punch line — the climactic phrase or sentence in a joke, speech, advertisement, or humorous story that produces the desired effect.
- punctulate — studded with minute points or dots.
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- punitively — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
- puy lentil — a greyish-green variety of lentil that retains its shape after cooking
- puzzlement — the state of being puzzled; perplexity.
- queen palm — a feather palm, Arecastrum romanzoffianum, of South America, having leaves from 7 to 12 feet (2 to 3½ meters) in length, and large, hanging clusters of small fruit.
- quintupled — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuple.
- quintuples — Plural form of quintuple.
- quintuplet — any group or combination of five, especially of the same kind.
- quintuplex — fivefold; quintuple.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- spellbound — bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated: a spellbound audience.
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spent fuel — nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction
- spinnerule — part of the spinneret of a spider
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- superclean — exceptionally clean
- superliner — an ocean liner of relatively great size or speed.
- superlunar — situated above or beyond the moon.
- superplane — an extremely large or fast aeroplane
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplement — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- suppleness — bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible: a supple bough.
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- supplyment — the act of supplying; replenishment
- suprarenal — situated above or on the kidney.
- tau lepton — an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. Symbol: T.
- un-spliced — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- unappalled — not appalled or daunted
- uncomplete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- uncrippled — not crippled
- uncrumpled — rumpled; wrinkled; crushed.
- undeplored — not hopeless or lamented
- underplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- undersleep — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- underslept — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- uneclipsed — not obscured or overshadowed