12-letter words containing p, l, e, u, r
- overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
- pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
- paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
- parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
- parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
- particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- pasture land — grassland used for grazing
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
- pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
- pearly queen — the female London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
- pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
- pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
- peptic ulcer — an erosion of the mucous membrane of the lower esophagus, stomach, or duodenum, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice.
- perambulator — baby carriage.
- perceptually — of, relating to, or involving perception.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
- perpetuality — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
- phenyl group — the univalent group C 6 H 5 –, derived from benzene.
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
- picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
- pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
- plain turkey — a bustard
- plant-cutter — any of several South American, passerine birds of the family Phytotomidae, superficially resembling grosbeaks but having serrated edges on the bill that aid in cutting leaves and other plant food.
- plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
- plecopterous — relating to the order Plecoptera or stoneflies
- pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
- pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
- pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.