11-letter words containing t, a, u, p
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- preoccupate — to influence or occupy the mind in advance
- prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- procuratory — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- promulgator — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- proteinuria — the presence of abnormally large amounts of protein in the urine, usually resulting from kidney disease but sometimes from fever, excessive exercise, or other abnormal condition.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- protuberate — to bulge out, forming a rounded projection.
- provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
- ptyalagogue — an item that causes the flow of saliva
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- pullulation — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
- pulsatility — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- punctuation — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- punctuative — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- put paid to — to end or destroy
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.