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11-letter words containing p, u, t

  • sporulation — to produce spores.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
  • spouted bed — A spouted bed is a bed in which the particles are quite big, and contact only happens in an upward movement of fluid in the middle of the bed.
  • sprezzatura — effortlessness or ease, esp. in art or literature; careless grace; nonchalance
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • stamp album — a book used by collectors of postage stamps to display and store their stamps
  • stand up to — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
  • stanley cup — a trophy emblematic since 1926 of the championship of the National Hockey League, composed of Canadian and U.S. professional teams.
  • static dump — a transfer of the contents of computer memory made at a time when the process is guaranteed to be inactive, as at the end of a routine.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • steeple cup — a standing cup of the 17th century having a cover with a tall finial.
  • steeplebush — the hardhack.
  • stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
  • stipulating — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
  • stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
  • stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
  • stirrup cup — farewell drink, especially one offered to a rider already mounted for departure.
  • stirrup jar — pseudamphora.
  • stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
  • stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stratopause — the boundary or transition layer between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
  • stripe rust — a disease of wheat, barley, rye, and other grasses, characterized by elongated rows of yellow spores on the affected parts, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia glumarum.
  • stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
  • studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
  • study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
  • study up on — to make a careful study of
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
  • stylopodium — a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.
  • sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
  • sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • submultiple — a number that is contained by another number an integral number of times without a remainder: The number 3 is a submultiple of 12.
  • suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
  • subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
  • substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
  • subsumption — an act of subsuming.
  • subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
  • suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • sumptuously — entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
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