11-letter words starting with pu
- pubic louse — See under louse (def 1).
- public bill — a congressional or parliamentary bill involving the general interests of the people at large or of the whole community.
- public debt — national debt.
- public gaze — If someone or something is in the public gaze, they are receiving a lot of attention from the general public.
- public good — benefit of all people
- public life — public service as an elected or appointed government official.
- public room — a lounge or other room that is open to all, especially in a hotel or on a ship.
- public sale — auction (def 1).
- publication — the act of publishing a book, periodical, map, piece of music, engraving, or the like.
- publicities — extensive mention in the news media or by word of mouth or other means of communication.
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- publishment — publication.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- puddingwife — a bluish and bronze wrasse, Halichoeres radiatus, of the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to Brazil.
- pudibundity — prudery
- puerilities — the state or quality of being a child.
- puerperally — in a puerperal manner
- puerto rico — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- puff pastry — a light, flaky, rich pastry made by rolling dough with butter and folding it to form layers: used for tarts, napoleons, etc.
- puffed rice — a type of puffed rice grain that is commonly used in breakfast cereals and snacks
- puget sound — an arm of the Pacific, in NW Washington.
- pugil stick — a long pole or stick with padded ends used to carry out mock combat.
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- pulled pork — of or denoting meat that is cooked until the meat can easily be pulled off the bone, as in pulled pork.
- pulley bone — wishbone (def 1).
- pullulation — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pulmonology — the branch of medical science concerned with the lungs and respiratory system and their diseases
- pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
- pulsatility — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- pulveration — the reduction of something to powder
- pulverulent — consisting of dust or fine powder.
- pump prices — petrol prices
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- pumpkinseed — the seed of the pumpkin.
- pumpstation — A pumpstation is a place with pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another.
- puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
- punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
- punch spoon — a spoon having a pierced bowl and a barbed end for removing fruit, ice, etc., from punch.
- punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- punctilious — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctualist — a person who is concerned with points of conduct
- punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
- punctuation — the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.
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