10-letter words containing a, c, o, u, p
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- isopachous — having the same thickness.
- jumbo pack — a very large pack. Used mainly in advertising and in the names of products
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- occupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- ocean pout — an eelpout, Macrozoarces americanus, common along the northeastern coast of North America.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- oppugnancy — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- pennaceous — having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- podocarpus — any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Podocarpus, of tropical and semitropical regions, especially P. macrophyllus, which is cultivated as an ornamental.
- porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- procacious — insolent
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- procedural — procedural language
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procurable — obtainable.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- procurator — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
- pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- punctation — punctate condition or marking.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- put across — 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.