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10-letter words containing a, t, p, u

  • superpaint — (graphics)   A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
  • supersmart — exceptionally smart
  • superstate — a state or a governing power presiding over states subordinated to it.
  • supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
  • supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • supplicant — supplicating.
  • supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
  • supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
  • taffy pull — a party at which taffy is made
  • take up on — If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it.
  • tamaulipas — a state in NE Mexico, bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. 30,731 sq. mi. (79,595 sq. km). Capital: Ciudad Victoria.
  • tapped out — having no ready money; broke
  • tapping up — (esp of a professional soccer club) the illicit practice of attempting to recruit a player while he is still bound by contract to another team
  • tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
  • tau lepton — an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. Symbol: T.
  • tautophony — the repetition of a sound
  • tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
  • the-plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
  • tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
  • tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
  • touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • transputer — A transputer is a type of fast powerful microchip.
  • trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
  • tripudiary — pertaining to dancing
  • tripudiate — to dance for joy
  • triumphant — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
  • tropaeolum — any garden plant of the genus Tropaeolum esp the nasturtium
  • tropopause — the boundary, or transitional layer, between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
  • trump card — Cards. trump1 (def 1a).
  • tuboplasty — surgical repair of one or both Fallopian tubes
  • tupperware — Tupperware is a range of plastic containers with tight-fitting lids that are used for storing food.
  • typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
  • ultrarapid — extraordinarily quick or fast
  • ultrasharp — (of a monitor or screen) having very high definition
  • unaccepted — generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.
  • unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
  • unapparent — readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view; visible: The crack in the wall was readily apparent.
  • unbaptized — not baptized
  • uncaptured — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
  • uncarpeted — having no carpet
  • underpants — drawers or shorts worn under outer clothing, usually next to the skin.
  • underplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unexpiated — not expiated or atoned for
  • unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
  • unimparted — not communicated (to another person)
  • unipartite — made as or consisting of only one part
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