11-letter words containing p, u, n, i, t
- 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.
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purging nut — physic nut.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- put in mind — to remind
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quintuplets — Plural form of quintuplet.
- quintupling — Present participle of quintuple.
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- return trip — the journey back from a destination
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- rumgumption — good sense
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- stipulating — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.
- superdainty — very dainty
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superintend — to oversee and direct (work, processes, etc.).
- 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.
- 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.
- supplanting — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supposition — the act of supposing.
- suppurating — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- suppuration — the process of suppurating.
- suspiration — a long, deep sigh.
- tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
- telanaipura — former name of Jambi (def 2).
- thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.