10-letter words containing a, c, p, u
- capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- carpsucker — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Carpiodes, as the quillback and the river carpsucker.
- catapulted — an ancient military engine for hurling stones, arrows, etc.
- catapultic — of or resembling a catapult
- catawampus — askew; awry
- catch-ups' — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- caudle cup — a deep drinking cup having two handles and, usually, a cover.
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chinquapin — a dwarf chestnut tree, Castanea pumila, of the eastern US, yielding edible nuts
- chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
- comeupance — Alternative form of comeuppance.
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- computable — computability theory
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- coupleable — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- decoupaged — Simple past tense and past participle of decoupage.
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- diplacusis — a difference in hearing by the two ears so that one sound is heard as two.