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11-letter words containing p, u, s, h

  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • phd student — a person who is studying for a PhD
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • phosphonium — the positively charged group PH 4 + .
  • phosphorous — containing trivalent phosphorus.
  • physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
  • pill pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
  • pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
  • pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
  • potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
  • prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • publishment — publication.
  • puckishness — the state of being puckish
  • pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
  • punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
  • punch spoon — a spoon having a pierced bowl and a barbed end for removing fruit, ice, etc., from punch.
  • puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
  • pushfulness — the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful
  • pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
  • quasi-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
  • republisher — a person who republishes
  • repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • rubbish tip — dump for refuse
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
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