10-letter words containing a, p, u, r
- quadripara — A female which has borne four offspring.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
- quadrupled — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
- quadruplet — any group or combination of four.
- quadruplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- quadrupole — a set of four associated positive and negative electric charges or two associated magnetic dipoles
- quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
- quintipara — A female that has borne five offspring.
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- rajpramukh — (in India) the title given to a governor or raja of a state between 1948 and 1956
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- rampasture — a large attic room.
- rapporteur — a person responsible for compiling reports and presenting them, as to a governing body.
- ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- recapturer — a person who recaptures something or someone
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- recuperate — to recover from sickness or exhaustion; regain health or strength.
- repopulate — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- reputative — reputed, putative, regarded as such
- resupinate — bent backward.
- round tape — (storage, jargon) Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- sculptural — relating to sculpture
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- smarten up — improve appearance
- snapper up — a person who snaps up bargains, etc
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermarium — the sperm gland
- spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spirituals — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.