12-letter words containing p, u, r, s
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- preposterous — completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish: a preposterous tale.
- prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prerequisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- presque isle — a city in NE Maine.
- press bureau — an organization or a department whose function is press-agentry.
- press button — a button on a phone dial which you press
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- pressure ice — a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.
- pressureless — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- prestructure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- presubscribe — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- presumptuous — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- print unions — the trade unions within the printing industry
- prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- proditorious — traitorous
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
- propitiously — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- prosperously — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.
- prostituting — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostitution — the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money.
- prussic acid — weakly acidic extremely poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide
- pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pseudosphere — a surface generated by revolving a tractrix about its asymptote.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur
- public works — government-funded construction