13-letter words containing p, o, u, r
- phytonutrient — phytochemical.
- piano quartet — a musical composition scored for piano and three other instruments, typically violin, viola, and cello.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
- pleasure boat — recreational vessel
- pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
- plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
- pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
- plique-a-jour — an enameling technique in which the colored enamels are fused into the spaces of a wire framework on a temporary backing; the backing is then removed, producing a translucent effect
- plum curculio — See under curculio.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pluralization — to receive or take a plural form.
- plus or minus — You use plus or minus to give the amount by which a particular number may vary.
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatometer — an instrument for measuring either the quantity of air inhaled or exhaled during a single inspiration or expiration or the force of inspiration or expiration.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
- poet laureate — (in Great Britain) a poet appointed for life as an officer of the royal household, formerly expected to write poems in celebration of court and national events.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
- polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- pons asinorum — a geometric proposition that if a triangle has two of its sides equal, the angles opposite these sides are also equal: so named from the difficulty experienced by beginners in mastering it. Euclid, 1:5.
- popular front — a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- port du salut — Port-Salut.
- port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.