11-letter words containing p, u, a, l
- penultimate — next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
- perambulate — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
- perlustrate — to inspect thoroughly; to make a thorough examination of (something), esp to intercept and read (letters) for purposes of surveillance; to travel through and survey (a region)
- perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
- persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
- perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- pi-calculus — (theory) A process algebra in which channel names can act both as transmission medium and as transmitted data. Its basic atomic actions are individual point to point communications which are nondeterministically selected and globally sequentialised.
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- place value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
- place-value — the value of the place, or position, of a digit in a number or series: In the number 794, the location of the digit 4 has a place value of one.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- plant louse — aphid.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- plasmapause — the boundary of the plasmasphere, where the particle density decreases very rapidly.
- plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
- plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play possum — opossum.
- play truant — be absent from school without permission
- playfulness — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- plum tomato — an egg-shaped or oblong variety of tomato.
- plumularian — a member of the genus Plumularia
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pluriserial — having many series or rows
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.