12-letter words containing u, p, i, n
- outlet point — an opening (on a pipe, etc) permitting escape or release (of liquid, etc)
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
- outstripping — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- p-n junction — a boundary between a p-type and n-type semiconductor that functions as a rectifier and is used in diodes and junction transistors
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
- panic button — an alarm button for use in an emergency, as to summon help.
- panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- papal nuncio — someone, such as an archbishop, who is a state's representative of or ambassador to the Pope
- paradoxurine — relating to the palm civet
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pauciloquent — using few words in speech or conversation
- paying guest — lodger
- pediculation — the act or process of growing a stalk or pedicle
- penguin suit — a man's formal evening suit
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- pericementum — periodontal membrane.
- perinephrium — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- perineuritis — inflammation of the perineurium
- periodontium — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- perniciously — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perpetuating — to make perpetual.
- perpetuation — to make perpetual.
- perquisition — an intensive and meticulous examination, pursuit, or hunt for something
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- pertinacious — holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute.
- perturbation — the act of perturbing.
- petrobrusian — a member of a 12th-century sect in S France that rejected the Mass, infant baptism, prayers for the dead, sacerdotalism, the veneration of the cross, and the building of churches.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- picnic lunch — a meal that you take and eat outdoors
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pig industry — the people and activities involved in making pork products
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.