11-letter words containing u, n, p, e
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- 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
- progeniture — procreation
- proper noun — Grammar. a noun that is used to denote a particular person, place, or thing, as Lincoln, Sarah, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Hall.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- 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.
- protuberant — bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting: protuberant eyes.
- prussianize — to make Prussian, as in character, method, organization, etc.
- pseudomonad — any of various bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas
- pseudomonas — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, certain species of which are pathogenic for plants and animals.
- pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
- publishment — publication.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.
- pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pulverulent — consisting of dust or fine powder.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
- punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- 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
- punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
- 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.
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- pupil nurse — a nurse who is still undergoing medical training
- pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
- pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
- pure-minded — having a mind that is free from moral taint or defilement
- purse seine — a large net towed, usually by two boats, that encloses a school of fish and is then closed at the bottom by means of a line resembling the string formerly used to draw shut the neck of a money pouch or purse
- purse-seine — to fish using a purse seine.
- pushfulness — the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful
- put one out — 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.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- quintuplets — Plural form of quintuplet.
- red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- return trip — the journey back from a destination
- rip current — undertow (def 1).