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12-letter words containing p, u, r, i

  • picker-upper — something that restores one's depleted energy or depressed spirits; pick-me-up.
  • picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
  • picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
  • picture card — face card
  • picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
  • picture disc — a phonograph record with a picture on the vinyl.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • picture tube — a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
  • pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pinch runner — a player sent into a game to replace a base runner.
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • pipe routing — Pipe routing is the planning of pipeline layout, which includes considerations of neatness, economy, and safety.
  • pipe rupture — A pipe rupture is a break in a pipeline.
  • pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
  • pityrosporum — a genus of fungi that live on the skin, esp that of the scalp and face, present in conditions such as dandruff and dermatitis
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
  • plurilocular — possessing many cells
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • port running — an evasive action at a port of entry in which a person drives through a vehicle-stopping point.
  • posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • preauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
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