11-letter words containing p, o, r, u
- perturbator — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- petrol pump — a device at a filling station that is used to deliver petrol to the tank of a car and which displays the quantity, quality, and usually the cost of the petrol delivered
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- phosphorous — containing trivalent phosphorus.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- piscivorous — adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- pittosporum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Pittosporum, native to warm regions of the Old World, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive foliage, flowers, or fruit.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- 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.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
- polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polyzoarium — a bryozoan colony, or its supporting skeleton.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pore volume — The pore volume is the total volume of very small openings in a bed of adsorbent particles.
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- port arthur — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.