11-letter words containing p, u, c
- perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
- perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- perpetuance — to make perpetual.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
- perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
- persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- 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
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- picket duty — the activity of standing outside an establishment to make a protest, to dissuade or prevent employees or clients from entering, etc
- pickup tube — camera tube.
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- picturesque — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- picturising — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pipe cutter — a machine or tool used for cutting pipe.
- piped music — Piped music is recorded music which is played in some supermarkets, restaurants, and other public places.
- piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
- piscicolous — (of an organism) living on or in fishes
- piscivorous — adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating.
- 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
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- 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.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pn junction — the boundary between two regions in a single crystal of a semiconductor: one region contains an electron acceptor and the other an electron donor
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- pneumectomy — pneumonectomy.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point count — a method of evaluating the strength of a hand by assigning a numerical value to high cards and to certain combinations and distributions of cards in the hand.
- point coupe — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.