11-letter words containing p, u, l, e, t
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- plant louse — aphid.
- 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.
- plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
- 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.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- pre-culture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- pre-lecture — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- precultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- productible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
- public debt — national debt.
- publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- publishment — publication.
- puerilities — the state or quality of being a child.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pulverulent — consisting of dust or fine powder.
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- purportless — without purport
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quintuplets — Plural form of quintuplet.
- raptureless — without rapture
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.