11-letter words containing p, o, u, r
- eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- export duty — a government tax paid on goods exported from a country
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- fluorophore — (biochemistry) A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.
- fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
- fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
- focus group — a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
- ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- group grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
- group-grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- harpoon gun — a small cannon for shooting harpoons.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- homosporous — having the spores of one kind only.
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
- house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house-proud — taking pride in one's house and housekeeping.
- housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseperson — someone who manages a household; househusband or housewife.
- hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature