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7-letter words containing u, l, e

  • outsell — to exceed in volume of sales; sell more than: He outsells all our other salespeople.
  • outsole — the outer sole of a shoe.
  • outtell — to outdo in telling; surpass in effect: so ridiculous as to outtell any comment.
  • outwell — (archaic, intransitive) To well outward; to issue forth.
  • outwile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
  • outyell — to yell louder or longer than
  • outyelp — to outdo in yelping
  • ovulate — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
  • p value — (statistics)   The probability that the opposite of some hypothesis is true, based on some set of results; a way of expressing the significance of a statistical observation. The lower the P value, the more significant the result. For example, if the hypothesis was "This vaccine prevents flu" then the opposite hypothesis (the "null hypothesis") would be "This vaccine has no effect on flu". If the occurence of flu was measured in a sample of people taking the vaccine then one might say that the hypothesis was confirmed with a p value of 5%. That would mean there was a 5% chance of obtaining the same results or better from a similar sample of the whole population even if the vaccine had no effect.
  • paenula — a long, circular cloak, sleeveless and often hooded, worn by the poorer classes in ancient Rome.
  • pageful — the amount (of text, etc) that a page will hold
  • palouse — a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.
  • papulae — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
  • parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
  • pauline — a female given name.
  • pelorus — a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
  • pendule — a manoeuvre by which a climber on a rope from above swings in a pendulum-like series of movements to reach another line of ascent
  • perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
  • piculet — any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
  • pile up — an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.
  • pile-up — an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.
  • pileous — hairy or furry.
  • pinnule — Zoology. a part or organ resembling a barb of a feather, a fin, or the like. a finlet.
  • pipeful — a quantity sufficient to fill the bowl of a pipe: a pipeful of tobacco.
  • plaguey — such as to plague, torment, or annoy; vexatious: a plaguy pile of debts.
  • plateau — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
  • pleurae — Anatomy, Zoology. a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax.
  • pleural — Anatomy. of or relating to the pleura.
  • pleuro- — of or relating to the side
  • pleuron — the lateral plate or plates of a thoracic segment of an insect.
  • plexure — the act of weaving together or something which has been interwoven
  • plucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
  • plucker — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
  • plugged — If something is plugged or plugged up, it is completely blocked so that nothing can get through it.
  • plugger — a person or thing that plugs.
  • plumage — the entire feathery covering of a bird.
  • plumate — resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.
  • plumbed — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
  • plumber — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
  • plumery — a collection of plumes
  • plummer — the drupaceous fruit of any of several trees belonging to the genus Prunus, of the rose family, having an oblong stone.
  • plummet — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
  • plumose — having feathers or plumes; feathered.
  • plumpen — to make or become plump
  • plumper — a heavy or sudden fall.
  • plumule — Botany. the bud of the ascending axis of a plant while still in the embryo.
  • plunder — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
  • plunged — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • plunger — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • plunker — a person or thing that plunks.
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