11-letter words containing r, e, n, u, c
- overcurrent — a current of a magnitude that is greater than a limiting value, as the value at which a fuse melts.
- overcutting — excessive cutting
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- peano curve — a curve that passes through every point of a two-dimensional region.
- pecuniarily — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pericranium — the outer periosteum of the cranium.
- perinuclear — situated near or occurring around the nucleus.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- perpetuance — to make perpetual.
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- pound-force — a foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity when acting on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: lbf.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicing — any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- 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.
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- quechumaran — a proposed language stock comprising Quechua and Aymara
- quinceanera — (among Hispanics in Latin America and the U.S.) a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday, marking her transition from childhood to maturity.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- re-acquaint — to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed by with): to acquaint the mayor with our plan.
- re-announce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- reannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- reassurance — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- recluseness — the fact or condition of being solitary or recluse; reclusion
- reconducted — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
- recountment — the act or process of recounting or reciting something
- recruitment — the act or process of recruiting.