11-letter words containing p, u, r, l
- pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- 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.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play truant — be absent from school without permission
- pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
- pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- plumularian — a member of the genus Plumularia
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- 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.
- pluriserial — having many series or rows
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollakiuria — abnormally frequent urination.
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
- polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- 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.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polyzoarium — a bryozoan colony, or its supporting skeleton.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- pore volume — The pore volume is the total volume of very small openings in a bed of adsorbent particles.
- postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pourability — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- powder blue — a pale blue diluted with gray.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- prayerfully — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- pre-closure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- 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.
- preambulary — of, pertaining to or of the nature of a preamble; preliminary, introductory