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11-letter words containing r, e, s, u, m, p

  • perfumeless — without perfume; not perfumed or wearing perfume
  • peridesmium — the membrane of cellular tissue surrounding a ligament
  • peristylium — a peristyle.
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • presumingly — presumptuous.
  • presumption — the act of presuming.
  • presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
  • prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
  • pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
  • pump prices — petrol prices
  • screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
  • semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
  • semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
  • sempervivum — any of various succulent plants belonging to the genus Sempervivum, of the stonecrop family, having leaves in dense basal rosettes and a compact, flat-topped cluster of flowers, and including the houseleek, S. tectorum, and other commonly cultivated species.
  • sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes to forest fires inaccessible to ground crews.
  • sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
  • stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
  • 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.
  • summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
  • superbomber — an aircraft used for dropping superbombs
  • supercilium — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • superfamily — a category of related families within an order or suborder.
  • superimpose — to impose, place, or set over, above, or on something else.
  • supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
  • supermodern — highly modern
  • supernormal — in excess of the normal or average: supernormal faculties; supernormal production.
  • superorgasm — an extreme orgasm
  • superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • supersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
  • supportment — the action of supporting
  • supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
  • suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
  • triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
  • trispermous — having three seeds.
  • trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
  • ultrasimple — extremely or exceptionally easy
  • unimpressed — finding sth unremarkable
  • unpresuming — not presumptuous; humble
  • zx spectrum — (computer)   Sinclair's first personal computer with a colour display. The Spectrum used the Zilog Z80 processor like its predecessors the ZX-80 and ZX-81. It was originally available in 16k and 48k versions using cassette tape and later grew to 128k and sprouted floppy disks. It had a wider and more solid case and a marginally better "dead flesh" keyboard. Unlike the earlier models, it didn't require the presence of a cold carton of milk to prevent it overheating. It was possibly the most popular home computer in the UK for many years. The TK-90X was a clone.
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