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11-letter words containing p, r, o, l, u, s

  • profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
  • proliferous — proliferating.
  • protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • provascular — of or relating to procambium
  • prusik loop — a loop formed with a sliding knot that locks under pressure in which a climber can place his foot in order to stand or ascend a rope
  • purportless — without purport
  • purposeless — having no purpose or apparent meaning.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
  • semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
  • sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
  • slop around — to spill or splash (liquid).
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
  • sporulation — to produce spores.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
  • subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
  • sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
  • superpolite — extremely polite
  • superschool — a large school
  • supervolute — (of convolute leaves) enveloping a rolled up leaf within the bud
  • supportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • supracostal — above the rib
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
  • tripetalous — having three petals.
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
  • trisepalous — having three sepals.
  • turtle soup — soup made from turtle flesh, usually of the green turtle
  • unipersonal — consisting of or existing as one person only.
  • unpurposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
  • unreposeful — characterized by a lack of repose or rest
  • up for sale — If a property or company is up for sale, its owner is trying to sell it.
  • 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
  • uranoplasty — a surgical operation to correct a defect of the palate or roof of the mouth
  • xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
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