11-letter words containing p, o, u, l, e
- pendulosity — the state or quality of being pendulous
- perduellion — high treason
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- 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
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- plant louse — aphid.
- 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
- plunge pool — the water in a plunge basin.
- 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.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- 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.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pompelmouse — a large citrus fruit
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- pore volume — The pore volume is the total volume of very small openings in a bed of adsorbent particles.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- pre-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- proliferous — proliferating.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- pseudologia — a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
- pseudologue — a person who suffers from pseudologia
- pseudopodal — (of protozoans) belonging to the former division Pseudopoda
- ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- pulled pork — of or denoting meat that is cooked until the meat can easily be pulled off the bone, as in pulled pork.
- pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder