11-letter words starting with pu
- punctuative — 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.
- punctulated — bearing small spots or dots
- punicaceous — of or relating to the family Punicaceae, containing the pomegranates
- punji stake — a sharp bamboo stake concealed in high grass at an angle so as to gash the feet and legs of enemy soldiers and often coated with excrement so as to cause an infected wound.
- punk rocker — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- pupil nurse — a nurse who is still undergoing medical training
- pupil power — the influence of or the increased status of the beliefs or actions of pupils
- pupillarity — the period between birth and puberty, or until attaining majority.
- puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
- puppeteered — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- pure merino — a free settler rather than a convict
- pure reason — reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
- pure-minded — having a mind that is free from moral taint or defilement
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purgatorial — removing or purging sin; expiatory: purgatorial rites.
- purgatorian — a person who believes in purgatory
- purging nut — physic nut.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- puritanical — very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
- purple book — 1. (publication) The "System V Interface Definition". The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender. 2. (publication) The Wizard Book. See also book titles.
- purple sage — a plant, Salvia leucophylla, of the mint family, native to California, having silvery leaves and purple spikes of flowers.
- purple wire — (jargon, hardware) Wire installed by IBM Field Engineers to work around problems discovered during testing or debugging. These are called "purple wires" even when (as is frequently the case) they are yellow. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, and red wire.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- purportedly — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- purportless — without purport
- purposeless — having no purpose or apparent meaning.
- purpresture — the wrongful enclosure of or intrusion upon lands, waters, or other property rightfully belonging to the public at large.
- purse seine — a large net towed, usually by two boats, that encloses a school of fish and is then closed at the bottom by means of a line resembling the string formerly used to draw shut the neck of a money pouch or purse
- purse-proud — proud of one's wealth, especially in an arrogant or showy manner.
- purse-seine — to fish using a purse seine.
- pursuant to — legal: in accordance with
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- pushfulness — the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- pustulation — the formation or breaking out of pustules.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- put down to — ascribe to
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put in mind — to remind
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- put on hold — suspend
- put one out — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put paid to — to end or destroy
- put through — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put up with — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- putrescence — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- putty knife — a tool for puttying, having a broad flexible blade.