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

  • 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  • plate armour — armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century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
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • pneumotropic — directed toward or having an affinity for lung tissue.
  • point source — a source of radiation sufficiently distant compared to its length and width that it can be considered as a point.
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • police court — an inferior court with summary jurisdiction for the trial of persons accused of any of certain minor offenses, and with power to examine those charged with more serious offenses and hold them for trial in a superior court or for a grand jury.
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • polyneuritis — inflammation of several nerves at the same time; multiple neuritis.
  • polyoestrous — polyestrous.
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • ponce around — If you say that someone is poncing around or poncing about, you mean that they are not doing something properly, quickly, or seriously.
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
  • porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
  • port hueneme — a city in S California.
  • portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • post-puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
  • postconsumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • posteruptive — occurring after a volcanic eruption
  • postexposure — occurring after a photo or image has been taken
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • power supply — power supply unit
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • preauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
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