11-letter words containing t, u, m
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pneumectomy — pneumonectomy.
- pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
- pneumostome — a breathing hole in the mantle of a gastropod.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- port number — port
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
- poultry-man — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- precomputer — designating the period prior to the introduction of computers; occurring or existing in this period
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pretty much — mostly
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- promptitude — promptness.
- 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.).
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- pteropodium — the foot of a pteropod.
- publishment — publication.
- 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.
- put in mind — to remind
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quantasomes — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- quantometer — a spectroscopic instrument for measuring the percentage of different metals present in a sample
- quantum bit — the fundamental unit of information in a quantum computer, capable of existing in two states, 0 or 1, simultaneously or at a different time.
- quantum dot — (physics) (Or "single-electron transistor") A location capable of containing a single electrical charge; i.e., a single electron of Coulomb charge. Physically, quantum dots are nanometer-size semiconductor structures in which the presence or absence of a quantum electron can be used to store information. See also: quantum cell, quantum cell wire, quantum-dot cellular automata.
- quart major — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quart minor — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
- quartz lamp — a lamp consisting of an ultraviolet light source, as mercury vapor, contained in a fused-silica bulb that transmits ultraviolet light with little absorption.
- quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
- quint minor — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.