10-letter words containing a, c, p, u
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- 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.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- pararescue — a rescue, as of persons caught in a disaster, accomplished by parachutists.
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
- peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
- 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.
- pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- per curiam — by the court
- perceptual — of, relating to, or involving perception.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- perdurance — permanence; the quality of lasting or enduring forever
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.