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11-letter words containing u, p, r, s

  • pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
  • perfumeless — without perfume; not perfumed or wearing perfume
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • peridesmium — the membrane of cellular tissue surrounding a ligament
  • peristylium — a peristyle.
  • perlustrate — to inspect thoroughly; to make a thorough examination of (something), esp to intercept and read (letters) for purposes of surveillance; to travel through and survey (a region)
  • perpetuates — to make perpetual.
  • perquisitor — the first person to own property that has subsequently been handed down to his heirs
  • persecution — the act of persecuting.
  • persecutive — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persecutors — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persecutory — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persian rug — an Oriental rug made in Persia (Iran), having rich, soft colors in any of various intricate, often floral, patterns
  • perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
  • perspicuous — clearly expressed or presented; lucid.
  • persuadable — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
  • persuasible — capable of being persuaded; open to or yielding to persuasion.
  • persulfuric — denoting a type of acid
  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • pervouralsk — a city in the central RSFSR, in the Ural Mountains in Asia.
  • pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
  • petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
  • petropounds — the multiples of the British pound as regarded in terms of income derived from petroleum
  • pfeffernuss — a small, usually ball-shaped cookie flavored with cinnamon, allspice, anise, etc. and with black pepper, made esp. during the Christmas season
  • phosphorous — containing trivalent phosphorus.
  • picturesque — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • picturising — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • pietersburg — capital of Northern Transvaal province, South Africa: pop. 26,000
  • pill pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
  • pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
  • piperaceous — belonging to the Piperacae, the pepper family of plants.
  • piscivorous — adapted to feeding on fish; fish-eating.
  • pisistratus — c605–527 b.c, tyrant of Athens 560–527 (father of Hipparchus and Hippias).
  • piss around — If you say that someone pisses around or pisses about, you mean they waste a lot of time doing unimportant things.
  • pittosporum — any of various shrubs or trees of the genus Pittosporum, native to warm regions of the Old World, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their attractive foliage, flowers, or fruit.
  • plastiqueur — a person, especially a terrorist, who makes, places, or detonates plastic bombs.
  • plateresque — noting or pertaining to a 16th-century style of Spanish architecture characterized by profuse applications of delicate low-relief Renaissance ornament to isolated parts of building exteriors.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • pleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • pleasureful — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • pleiomerous — (of a flower) having a greater than normal number of parts
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • plumigerous — wearing or possessing feathers
  • pluralistic — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • pluriserial — having many series or rows
  • polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polyandrous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polyandry; polyandric.
  • polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
  • polyestrous — having several estrus cycles annually or during a breeding season.
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