11-letter words containing p, o, d, u
- pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
- pediococcus — any of several spherical, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, producing acid and clouding in beer and wort.
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- perduellion — high treason
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- pilot study — trial done for research
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- podophyllum — the dried rhizome of the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, from which podophyllin is derived.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- pound scots — pound2 (def 7).
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
- powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
- preoccupied — completely engrossed in thought; absorbed.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- producement — production
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- promptitude — promptness.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudo-code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- pseudoedema — effusion of serous fluid into the interstices of cells in tissue spaces or into body cavities.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudologue — a person who suffers from pseudologia
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.