10-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diplacusis — a difference in hearing by the two ears so that one sound is heard as two.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- disputants — Plural form of disputant.
- disruptant — That which disrupts.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- drain plug — A drain plug is a plug which is taken out to allow a fluid to be drained from a tank such as an engine oil pan or sump.
- drainspout — downspout.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- duennaship — The role or status of duenna.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- durga puja — Dasehra.
- emu parade — an army exercise devoted to emu-bobbing
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
- epauletted — Alternative form of epauleted.
- epicardium — A serous membrane that forms the innermost layer of the pericardium and the outer surface of the heart.
- euphausiid — A shrimp-like planktonic marine crustacean of an order which includes krill.
- exculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of exculpate.
- expurgated — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- glammed up — made to look more glamorous
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- ground pea — peanut.
- guadeloupe — two islands (Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre) separated by a narrow channel in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies: together with five dependencies they form an overseas department of France. 687 sq. mi. (1179 sq. km). Capital: Basse-Terre.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- hand-me-up — something, such as an item of electronic equipment, that is passed from a younger to an older member of a family
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.