11-letter words containing u, n, p, r, c
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicing — any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- pricing gun — A pricing gun is a hand-held device used in stores for fixing a price label to a product.
- proconsular — Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- 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
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- pronouncing — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- 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.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- 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.
- punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
- 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.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superceding — supersede.
- supercenter — a very large shopping centre or complex
- superinduce — to bring in or induce as an added feature, circumstance, etc.; superimpose.
- superinfect — to infect further with an additional infection
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- superscreen — a very large screen
- supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
- thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
- uncorrupted — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- underpriced — (of an article for sale) priced at too low a level or amount
- unempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.