10-letter words containing a, u, r, p
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burst page — banner
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capraesque — relating to or in the style of the movies of Frank Capra, focusing on courage and its positive effects and the triumph of the underdog.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- 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.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- 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
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- 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
- 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
- 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
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- depanneurs — Plural form of depanneur.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- disruptant — That which disrupts.
- 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.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- durga puja — Dasehra.
- emplastrum — a medicated plaster
- emu parade — an army exercise devoted to emu-bobbing