12-letter words containing p, u, t, r
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- future-proof — (of a system, computer, program, etc) guaranteed not to be superseded by future versions, developments, etc
- glucoprotein — glycoprotein.
- gospel truth — an unquestionably true statement, fact, etc.
- graduateship — the time or condition of being a graduate
- great plague — the bubonic plague that occurred in London in 1665 and killed about 15 percent of the city's population.
- gross output — the total output of a firm, industry, or economy without deducting intermediate costs
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- guilty party — the person or people responsible for an offence or misdeed
- gutta-percha — the milky juice, nearly white when pure, of various Malaysian trees of the sapodilla family, especially Palaquium gutta.
- gutter press — press specializing in sensationalism
- guttersnipes — Plural form of guttersnipe.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heteroduplex — having polynucleotide strands derived from two different sources
- hippocentaur — Centaur.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
- hypertextual — Of or relating to hypertext.
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- imparticular — (proscribed) in particular.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- import quota — the maximum amount of a product that can be imported into a country within a given period of time
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in perpetuum — for ever
- incorruption — the quality or condition of being incorrupt.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interrupters — Plural form of interrupter.
- interrupting — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interruption — an act or instance of interrupting.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interspinous — located between spines, esp between the vertebrae
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- intrapreneur — an employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.
- jeu d'esprit — a witticism.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- jumpstarting — Present participle of jumpstart.
- jurisprudent — versed in jurisprudence.
- ketone group — the characteristic group occurring in ketones that consists of the carbonyl group attached to two alkyl groups.
- kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc