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11-letter words containing r, a, u, s

  • pastry tube — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
  • pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
  • pastureless — without pasture, free of pasture
  • pentamerous — consisting of or divided into five parts.
  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • perlustrate — to inspect thoroughly; to make a thorough examination of (something), esp to intercept and read (letters) for purposes of surveillance; to travel through and survey (a region)
  • perpetuates — to make perpetual.
  • persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
  • pisistratus — c605–527 b.c, tyrant of Athens 560–527 (father of Hipparchus and Hippias).
  • piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
  • plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
  • plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • pluriserial — having many series or rows
  • polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
  • postulatory — of or relating to a postulate or assumption
  • precalculus — pertaining to the mathematical prerequisites for the study of calculus, as algebra, analytical geometry, and trigonometry.
  • precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
  • prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
  • primiparous — a woman who has borne but one child or who is parturient for the first time.
  • proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
  • procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prosauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur of the Triassic and early Jurassic periods
  • protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
  • provascular — of or relating to procambium
  • prussianism — the militaristic spirit, system, policy, or methods historically associated with the Prussians.
  • prussianize — to make Prussian, as in character, method, organization, etc.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
  • pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
  • purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
  • pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
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