11-letter words containing p, l, u, g
- multiplying — Present participle of multiply.
- mumbledypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- mumbletypeg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- nonplussing — Present participle of nonplus.
- outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
- palaeologus — family name of Byzantine rulers 1259–1453.
- pelagius ii — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
- physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- plunge pool — the water in a plunge basin.
- plutologist — a person who has expertise in plutology
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudologue — a person who suffers from pseudologia
- ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
- 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
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.
- pulmonology — the branch of medical science concerned with the lungs and respiratory system and their diseases
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- quintupling — Present participle of quintuple.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- stipulating — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- sugar apple — sweetsop.
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.