11-letter words containing p, o, r, u
- tutor group — (in British secondary schools) a grouping of students who are taught together
- typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
- un-profound — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- unapproving — expressing disapproval or displeasure
- uncorrupted — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- underexpose — to expose either to insufficient light or to sufficient light for too short a period, as in photography.
- underreport — to report fewer than the actual number or less than the true amount of
- unempowered — to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means: I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.
- unhoped for — (esp of something pleasant) not anticipated; unexpected
- unhoped-for — unexpected; unanticipated: an unhoped-for piece of good luck.
- unimportant — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- unipersonal — consisting of or existing as one person only.
- unisotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unoppressed — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- unparagoned — having no paragon; peerless
- unpardoning — not forgiving
- unpatriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- unperformed — not performed or done
- unpolarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- unportioned — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
- unprocessed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- unproctored — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- unprofessed — not professed, not openly declared
- unprofiting — the lack of profit or gain
- unprojected — not projected or planned for
- unpromising — unlikely to be favorable or successful, as the weather, a situation, or a career.
- unprophetic — not prophetic, not seeing future events correctly
- unprotected — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- unprotested — not protested or argued against
- unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
- unpurposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- unreposeful — characterized by a lack of repose or rest
- unreproving — not reprimanding or reproaching
- unsupported — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- up for sale — If a property or company is up for sale, its owner is trying to sell it.
- up-and-over — (of a door, etc) opened by being lifted and moved into a horizontal position
- upgradation — the process, state, or act of upgrading
- upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
- upholstress — a female upholsterer
- upper bound — an element greater than or equal to all the elements in a given set: 3 and 4 are upper bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3. Compare bound3 (def 4), greatest lower bound, least upper bound, lower bound.
- upper floor — An upper floor in a hotel is on a level above the first floor.
- upper house — one of two branches of a legislature generally smaller and less representative than the lower branch, as the Senate of the U.S. Congress.
- upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
- uranography — the branch of astronomy concerned with the description and mapping of the heavens, and especially of the fixed stars.
- uranoplasty — a surgical operation to correct a defect of the palate or roof of the mouth
- uranoscopid — any fish of the family Uranoscopidae, comprising the stargazers.
- urediospore — the spore of the rust fungi that appears between the aeciospore and the teliospore, commonly the summer spore.
- uriniparous — producing or making urine, as of the tubes in the kidney