11-letter words containing r, e, p, u, g
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- mudspringer — mudskipper.
- murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- open ground — uncovered or unobstructed ground in a wide open space
- page turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
- page-turner — a book so exciting or gripping that one is compelled to read it very rapidly.
- parkersburg — a city in NW West Virginia, on the Ohio River.
- paumgartner — Bernhard [bern-hahrt] /ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1887–1971, Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
- pedagoguery — a teacher; schoolteacher.
- pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
- pentangular — having five angles and five sides; pentagonal.
- persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
- picturegoer — a person who goes to the cinema, esp frequently
- pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- power surge — an unexpected, temporary increase in the current or voltage of an electrical circuit
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- prejudicing — any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
- pressburger — Emeric (ˈɛmərɪk). 1902–88, Hungarian film writer and producer, living in Britain: best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Michael Powell. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), I Know Where I'm Going (1945), and A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- progeniture — procreation
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- sugar apple — sweetsop.
- sugar maple — any of several maples having a sweet sap, especially Acer saccharum (the state tree of New York, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin), having a short trunk and long, curving branches, yielding a hard wood used for making furniture and being the chief source of maple sugar.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superbright — exceptionally bright
- superceding — supersede.
- supercharge — to charge with an abundant or excessive amount, as of energy, emotion, or tension.
- superegoist — an exceptionally selfish or self-centred person; someone who is very self-important