11-letter words containing u, p, t, e, m
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- 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.
- post-bellum — of or during the period after a war, esp the American Civil War
- postscenium — a wing on either side of the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theatre where props could be stored and actors could prepare; a parascenium
- preambulate — to make a preamble, to give an introduction
- precomputer — designating the period prior to the introduction of computers; occurring or existing in this period
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- 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.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pretty much — mostly
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.
- producement — production
- promptitude — promptness.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pteropodium — the foot of a pteropod.
- publishment — publication.
- pyrobitumen — any of the dark, solid hydrocarbons including peat, coal, and bituminous shale.
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- shoot-em-up — A shoot-em-up is a computer game that involves shooting and killing characters.
- shoot'em-up — a book, film, TV show, video game, etc. characterized by much violent content, gunplay, etc., esp. one in the western, crime, or war genres
- sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
- spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- submultiple — a number that is contained by another number an integral number of times without a remainder: The number 3 is a submultiple of 12.
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- supermarket — a large retail market that sells food and other household goods and that is usually operated on a self-service basis.
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- supersystem — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
- supportment — the action of supporting
- supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
- suprematism — a nonrepresentational style of art developed in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by severely simple geometric shapes or forms and an extremely limited palette.
- sympathique — pleasing or congenial
- sympetalous — gamopetalous.
- telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
- temperature — a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium.
- tempestuous — stormy, tumultuous
- temptatious — enticing or illicitly desirable
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trispermous — having three seeds.
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.