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12-letter words containing r, e, p, u, l

  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • palace guard — the security force protecting a palace.
  • pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
  • paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
  • parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
  • parlour game — A parlour game is a game that is played indoors by families or at parties, for example a guessing game.
  • particulates — very small particles of a substance, esp those that are produced when fuel is burned
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • pasture land — grassland used for grazing
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • pearl button — a button (as for fastening a shirt, blouse, etc) made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
  • pearly queen — the female London costermonger whose ceremonial clothes display the most lavish collection of pearl buttons
  • pectoriloquy — vocalization through the chest wall, indicating a cavity or consolidation of the lung
  • pentyl group — any of the univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 5 H 1 1 –.
  • peptic ulcer — an erosion of the mucous membrane of the lower esophagus, stomach, or duodenum, caused in part by the corrosive action of the gastric juice.
  • perambulator — baby carriage.
  • perceptually — of, relating to, or involving perception.
  • percussional — of or relating to percussion
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
  • permaculture — a system of cultivation intended to maintain permanent agriculture or horticulture by relying on renewable resources and a self-sustaining ecosystem.
  • perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
  • perpetualist — someone who holds to any form of perpetualism
  • perpetuality — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
  • petrobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
  • phenyl group — the univalent group C 6 H 5 –, derived from benzene.
  • photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
  • picture mold — a molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended.
  • picture rail — bar from which pictures are hung
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pilot burner — pilot light (def 1).
  • pisciculture — the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish by artificial means.
  • plain turkey — a bustard
  • plant-cutter — any of several South American, passerine birds of the family Phytotomidae, superficially resembling grosbeaks but having serrated edges on the bill that aid in cutting leaves and other plant food.
  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century
  • plecopterous — relating to the order Plecoptera or stoneflies
  • pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
  • pleurogenous — Anatomy. pertaining to or originating from the pleura.
  • plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • pluriliteral — (in Hebrew grammar) containing more than three letters in the root
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
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