11-letter words containing u, p, o, n
- photo-mount — a heavy paper or board suitable for mounting photographs.
- piano music — printed music intended to be played on the piano
- piano tuner — a person who tunes pianos and sometimes other keyboard instruments.
- pirouetting — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
- piston pump — A piston pump is a pump which moves fluid by the movement up and down of a disk or short cylinder inside a tube.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- plant louse — aphid.
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
- plunge pool — the water in a plunge basin.
- pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
- plutonomist — a person who studies or has expertise in plutonomy
- pn junction — the boundary between two regions in a single crystal of a semiconductor: one region contains an electron acceptor and the other an electron donor
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pneumectomy — pneumonectomy.
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pneumonitis — inflammation of the lung caused by a virus or exposure to irritating substances.
- pneumostome — a breathing hole in the mantle of a gastropod.
- pococurante — a careless or indifferent person.
- point count — a method of evaluating the strength of a hand by assigning a numerical value to high cards and to certain combinations and distributions of cards in the hand.
- point coupe — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- point group — a class of crystals determined by a combination of their symmetry elements, all crystals left unchanged by a given set of symmetry elements being placed in the same class.
- point guard — Basketball. the guard who directs the team's offense from the point.
- poke around — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
- pollen tube — the protoplasmic tube that is extruded from a germinating pollen grain and grows toward the ovule.
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
- polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
- polyangular — multangular; multiangular.
- polygonatum — a plant of the genus Polygonatum
- polylingual — pertaining to, expressed in, or using several languages; multilingual.
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polyonymous — having or known by several or many names.
- polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
- ponzimonium — theoretical financial turmoil in the wake of uncovering suspected Ponzi schemes
- pop-up menu — a menu that suddenly appears when an option is selected
- 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.
- port number — port
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.