11-letter words containing p, u, i, r
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- stirrup cup — farewell drink, especially one offered to a rider already mounted for departure.
- stirrup jar — pseudamphora.
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stripe rust — a disease of wheat, barley, rye, and other grasses, characterized by elongated rows of yellow spores on the affected parts, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia glumarum.
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- sun prairie — a town in S Wisconsin.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- super-sized — having size as specified (often used in combination): middle-sized.
- super-slick — very well-executed or presented
- super-title — (especially in opera production) a translation of a segment of the libretto or other text or sometimes a brief summary of the plot projected onto a screen above the stage during a performance.
- superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- superceding — supersede.
- supercherie — deception, trickery or an instance thereof
- supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important
- superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superficies — the surface, outer face, or outside of a thing.
- superfluity — the state of being superfluous.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
- superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
- superiority — the quality or condition of being superior.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
- supernation — a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- superpolite — extremely polite
- superpraise — to praise excessively
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- superrefine — to refine to an advanced degree
- superscribe — to write (words, letters, one's name, address, etc.) above or on something.
- superscript — Printing. superior (def 10).
- superseding — to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
- supersinger — an exceptional singer
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- superstrike — an exceptionally large strike
- superstring — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.