11-letter words containing u, n, r, s
- persecution — the act of persecuting.
- persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
- petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
- pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season
- picturising — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- 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.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- 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.
- protandrous — (of hermaphrodite or monoecious plants) maturing the anthers before the stigma
- protogynous — of or relating to a flower in which the shedding of pollen occurs after the stigma has stopped being receptive; having female sex organs maturing before the male.
- pruriginous — of, relating to, or causing prurigo.
- prussianism — the militaristic spirit, system, policy, or methods historically associated with the Prussians.
- prussianize — to make Prussian, as in character, method, organization, etc.
- 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.
- pupil nurse — a nurse who is still undergoing medical training
- pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
- 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.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- quadrantids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadran·tid me·teor show·er) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quarantines — Plural form of quarantine.
- quaternions — Plural form of quaternion.
- queen truss — a truss having queen posts with no king post.
- queensberry — John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquis of, 1844–1900, Scottish nobleman and sponsor of modern boxing rules.
- questionary — a questionnaire.
- questioners — Plural form of questioner.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude