11-letter words containing p, s, e, u
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- drug pusher — someone who encourages others to take illegal drugs and who makes money supplying illegal drugs
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
- duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- east punjab — the eastern part of the former province of Punjab, in British India: now part of Punjab state, India.
- eleven-plus — The eleven-plus is an exam which was taken by children in Britain at about the age of eleven, in order to decide which secondary school they should go to.
- emphyteusis — a continual right in a property that belongs to another
- encapsulate — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- epicuticles — Plural form of epicuticle.
- epigastrium — The part of the upper abdomen immediately over the stomach.
- epignathous — having a protruding upper jaw
- epipetalous — (of stamens) attached to the petals
- epiphyllous — (of plants) growing on, or attached to, the leaf of another plant
- episepalous — growing upon a sepal
- episulphide — (organic chemistry) A class of organic compound analogous to epoxides in which a sulphur atom replaces the oxygen.
- epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
- eponymously — In an eponymous manner; as in the named character of a book etc.
- equipoising — Present participle of equipoise.
- eriophorous — relating to cotton grass
- euphausiids — Plural form of euphausiid.
- euphemistic — Using or of the nature of a euphemism.
- eureka step — In program transformation, a transformation which is not obvious or easy to define as an algorithm.
- eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- expeditious — Done with speed and efficiency.
- expostulate — Express strong disapproval or disagreement.
- exstipulate — (of a flowering plant) having no stipules
- 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.
- 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.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- goose bumps — If you get goose bumps, the hairs on your skin stand up so that it is covered with tiny bumps. You get goose bumps when you are cold, frightened, or excited.
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- 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
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.