11-letter words containing p, u, c
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- prolocutrix — a female prolocutor
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- promiscuous — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.
- pronouncing — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- provascular — of or relating to procambium
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- pseudo-code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- pseudoscope — an optical instrument for producing an image in which the depth or relief of an object is reversed.
- pseudoscopy — the use of a pseudoscope.
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- public bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the general interests of the people at large or of the whole community.
- public debt — national debt.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public good — benefit of all people
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- public sale — auction (def 1).
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- puerto rico — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- puffed rice — a type of puffed rice grain that is commonly used in breakfast cereals and snacks
- pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
- pump prices — petrol prices
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
- punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
- punch spoon — a spoon having a pierced bowl and a barbed end for removing fruit, ice, etc., from punch.
- punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- punctuation — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.