11-letter words containing t, u, p, l
- peristylium — a peristyle.
- perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
- perlocution — (of a speech act) producing an effect upon the listener, as in persuading, frightening, amusing, or causing the listener to act.
- perlustrate — to inspect thoroughly; to make a thorough examination of (something), esp to intercept and read (letters) for purposes of surveillance; to travel through and survey (a region)
- perpetuable — able to be perpetuated
- perpetually — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
- perturbable — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturbedly — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- petrol pump — a device at a filling station that is used to deliver petrol to the tank of a car and which displays the quantity, quality, and usually the cost of the petrol delivered
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- photo album — bound book for photos
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pilot study — trial done for research
- planetarium — an apparatus or model representing the planetary system.
- plant louse — aphid.
- plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
- plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- play truant — be absent from school without permission
- plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- plum tomato — an egg-shaped or oblong variety of tomato.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- plutocratic — of, relating to, or characterized by a plutocracy or plutocrats.
- plutologist — a person who has expertise in plutology
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- pluviometer — rain gauge.
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
- politbureau — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
- postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
- postulating — to ask, demand, or claim.