11-letter words containing p, u, r, t
- prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- 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.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- pteropodium — the foot of a pteropod.
- puerilities — the state or quality of being a child.
- puerto rico — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pulverulent — consisting of dust or fine powder.
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- puppeteered — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purging nut — physic nut.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- purportless — without purport
- purpresture — the wrongful enclosure of or intrusion upon lands, waters, or other property rightfully belonging to the public at large.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- put through — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quarterpace — (archaic, architecture) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
- quarterpipe — Alternative form of quarter-pipe.
- quartz lamp — a lamp consisting of an ultraviolet light source, as mercury vapor, contained in a fused-silica bulb that transmits ultraviolet light with little absorption.
- raptureless — without rapture
- rapturously — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- recuperator — a person or thing that recuperates.
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- repetiteuse — a female repetiteur, one who rehearses opera singers