11-letter words containing p, u, r, i, n
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- pricing gun — A pricing gun is a hand-held device used in stores for fixing a price label to a product.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- progeniture — procreation
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- pronouncing — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- propinquity — nearness in place; proximity.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- proteinuria — the presence of abnormally large amounts of protein in the urine, usually resulting from kidney disease but sometimes from fever, excessive exercise, or other abnormal condition.
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- prussianism — the militaristic spirit, system, policy, or methods historically associated with the Prussians.
- prussianize — to make Prussian, as in character, method, organization, etc.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pupil nurse — a nurse who is still undergoing medical training
- pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
- pure-minded — having a mind that is free from moral taint or defilement
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purging nut — physic nut.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- purse seine — a large net towed, usually by two boats, that encloses a school of fish and is then closed at the bottom by means of a line resembling the string formerly used to draw shut the neck of a money pouch or purse
- purse-seine — to fish using a purse seine.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- return trip — the journey back from a destination
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- rumgumption — good sense
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- 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.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- 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.
- sun prairie — a town in S Wisconsin.