11-letter words containing u, p, e, r, n
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- 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.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pulverulent — consisting of dust or fine powder.
- 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.
- 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.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- 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).
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spinel ruby — ruby spinel.
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spitzenburg — any of several red or yellow varieties of apple that ripen in the autumn.
- splendorous — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sporogenous — of or relating to spores or spore production.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- spruce pine — a tall coniferous tree, Pinus glabra, of the southeastern U.S., having smooth, gray bark and needles in bundles of two.
- suckerpunch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
- sun prairie — a town in S Wisconsin.