11-letter words containing a, p, u, r, e
- counterpane — A counterpane is a decorative cover on a bed.
- counterpart — Someone's or something's counterpart is another person or thing that has a similar function or position in a different place.
- counterplan — an opposing plan
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperate — poor; impoverished
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- ear trumpet — a trumpet-shaped device held to the ear for collecting and intensifying sounds and once commonly used as an aid to hearing.
- edp auditor — (job) A person who analyses system functions and operations to determine adequate security and controls. An EDP analyst evaluates systems and operational procedures and reports findings to senior management. He writes ad hoc report programs using 4GLs and specialised audit software.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- encapturing — Present participle of encapture.
- enrapturing — Present participle of enrapture.
- epigastrium — The part of the upper abdomen immediately over the stomach.
- eureka step — In program transformation, a transformation which is not obvious or easy to define as an algorithm.
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- europeanize — to make European in culture, dress, etc
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- expurgating — Present participle of expurgate.
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- harrumphers — Plural form of harrumpher.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather