11-letter words containing p, u, t
- touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
- tough pitch — the state of refined copper when it is soft, malleable, and flexible: tough pitch copper.
- tree lupine — a shrubby, Californian tree, Lupinus arboreus, of the legume family, having hairy, finger-shaped leaflets and fragrant, sulphur-yellow flowers.
- tricuspidal — having three cusps
- tripetalous — having three petals.
- triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trisepalous — having three sepals.
- trispermous — having three seeds.
- trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
- trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- trusteeship — Law. the office or function of a trustee.
- trypan blue — dye used for staining cells in biological research
- tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
- tuba player — someone who plays the tuba, a valved brass instrument of bass pitch, in which the bell points upwards and the mouthpiece projects at right angles
- tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
- tummy upset — an (often short) illness indicating an upset digestive system with symptoms such as a sore stomach, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea
- tuning pipe — pitch pipe.
- turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
- turing plus — Systems programming language, a concurrent descendant of Turing. Available from Holt Software Assocs, Toronto <[email protected]>.
- turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
- turtle soup — soup made from turtle flesh, usually of the green turtle
- tutor group — (in British secondary schools) a grouping of students who are taught together
- typefounder — a person who casts metallic printer's type
- ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
- umpty-umpth — umpteenth.
- unadaptable — capable of being adapted.
- unadoptable — (of children or animals) not able to be adopted or placed in a home
- unapostolic — not apostolic; not related to or characteristic of the early Christian apostles or their subsequent apostles
- unappointed — by, through, or as a result of an appointment (often in contrast with elected): an appointed official.
- unaspirated — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- unattempted — not tried or undertaken
- uncaptioned — a title or explanation for a picture or illustration, especially in a magazine.
- uncompacted — not compacted
- uncompetent — having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
- uncompleted — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- uncompliant — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- uncorrupted — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- undependent — conditioned or determined by something else; contingent: Our trip is dependent on the weather.
- undeposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- underreport — to report fewer than the actual number or less than the true amount of
- undisrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- undo-plasty — cosmetic surgical procedures designed to reverse the results of a previous procedure or procedures