11-letter words containing u, p, i, n
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purging nut — physic nut.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- 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.
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- put in mind — to remind
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- quintuplets — Plural form of quintuplet.
- quintupling — Present participle of quintuple.
- rap jumping — the sport of descending high buildings, attached to ropes and a pulley
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- return trip — the journey back from a destination
- ring-porous — having annual rings marked by a conspicuous band of large pores in wood formed in spring.
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- rumgumption — good sense
- sauropsidan — relating to the Sauropsida or animals belonging to the Sauriodea group in Huxley's classification
- sculpturing — the act of sculpturing or carving
- 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.
- sesquiplane — a biplane having one wing with not more than half the surface area of the other wing.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- showjumping — horseriding event
- sinupallial — (of lamellibranchs) having an impression of the sinus on the pallium
- sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
- ski jumping — a competitive event, included in the Nordic combined, in which a skier jumps from a ski jump, often traveling 230 to 300 feet (70 to 90 meters) in the air, with scores being based on both the skier's form and the distance of the jump.
- ski-jumping — the sport or activity of (skiers) jumping from a high ramp overhanging a slope
- speculating — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- spiculation — formation into spicules.
- 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.
- spondulicks — money; cash.
- sporogonium — the sporangium of mosses and liverworts.
- sporulation — to produce spores.
- 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.
- spud island — Prince Edward Island.
- standing up — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- stipulating — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stipulation — a condition, demand, or promise in an agreement or contract.
- studentship — the state or condition of being a student.