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

  • nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
  • nonpetroleum — not containing any petroleum based substance
  • nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
  • np-hilarious — (humour)   An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
  • number plate — vehicle's registration panel
  • numbers pool — Also called numbers, numbers game, numbers racket. an illegal daily lottery in which money is wagered on the appearance of certain numbers in some statistical listing or tabulation published in a daily newspaper, racing form, etc.
  • nuxi problem — (data, architecture)   /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.
  • oil pressure — force that keeps engine lubricated
  • oil producer — a country with reserves of oil
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
  • open cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
  • ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
  • outer planet — any of the four planets with orbits outside the orbit of Mars, namely, the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • over-helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
  • over-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
  • parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • parrot tulip — a variety of the cultivated tulip Tulipa gesnerana, having variously colored, often double flowers with fringed petals.
  • particularly — in a particular or to an exceptional degree; especially: He read it with particularly great interest.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • paul-boncour — Joseph [zhaw-zef] /ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1873–1972, French lawyer and statesman: premier 1932–33.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • pearly queen — the female London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
  • pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
  • peptic ulcer — an erosion of the mucous membrane of the lower esophagus, stomach, or duodenum, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perceptually — of, relating to, or involving perception.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
  • permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
  • perpetuality — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
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