11-letter words containing u, p, i, n
- posturizing — to posture; pose.
- pouring box — tundish (def 2).
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- 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.
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- 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.
- pricing gun — A pricing gun is a hand-held device used in stores for fixing a price label to a product.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- procuration — the act of obtaining or getting; procurement.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- progeniture — procreation
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- pronouncing — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- propinquity — nearness in place; proximity.
- 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.
- 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.
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- 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.
- pudibundity — prudery
- pullulation — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- punctuation — 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pupil nurse — a nurse who is still undergoing medical training
- pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
- pure-minded — having a mind that is free from moral taint or defilement