11-letter words containing p, u, c
- octuplicate — a group, series, or set of eight identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- open cheque — an uncrossed cheque that can be cashed at the drawee bank
- open source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- open-source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- optocoupler — An optoisolator.
- out-compete — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- out-process — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outcropping — Geology. a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth. the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- outpolitick — to surpass in politicking
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- overproduce — to produce more of (a product or commodity) than is required
- packet soup — soup supplied in dried form in a packet
- packing nut — a nut that serves to condense packing and so to tighten its seal.
- painted cup — any of several semiparasitic plants of the genus Castilleja, of the figwort family, having highly colored dilated bracts about the flowers.
- palace coup — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- papyraceous — papery.
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- paramaecium — a microscopic unicellular ciliate protozoa
- paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful
- particulars — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- particulate — of, relating to, or composed of distinct particles.
- party music — music for or at a party
- pascal plus — (language) Pascal with extensions for object-oriented multiprogramming by Jim Welsh and D. Bustard of Queens University, Belfast, UK. Pascal Plus uses an "envelope" construct for both packages and classes.
- pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
- patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
- pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- peculiarity — a trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
- peculiarize — to make peculiar, unusual, distinguished, etc.
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pediculated — having a stalk or stalks
- pediculosis — the state of being infested with lice.
- pediococcus — any of several spherical, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus Pediococcus, producing acid and clouding in beer and wort.
- pedunculate — having a peduncle.
- peking duck — a Chinese dish consisting of roast duck with a crispy skin; the meat is served with strips of vegetables, steamed pancakes, and hoisin sauce
- pellucidity — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- penicillium — any fungus of the genus Penicillium, certain species of which are used in cheesemaking and as the source of penicillin.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pericardium — the membranous sac enclosing the heart.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- pericranium — the outer periosteum of the cranium.