9-letter words containing a, u, r, p
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- creampuff — puff pastry filled with cream
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cup coral — any of several species of coral in which the polyp forms and houses itself in a cup-shaped depression in the skeleton.
- cupbearer — an attendant who fills and serves wine cups, as in a royal household
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- curlpaper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- dépanneur — (in Quebec) a convenience store
- depardieu — Gérard. born 1948, French film actor, granted Russian citizenship in 2013. His films include Jean de Florette (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Green Card (1991), The Man in the Iron Mask (1997), and Tais-toi (2003)
- departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depurated — Simple past tense and past participle of depurate.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- djajapura — a city in and the capital of Irian Jaya, on the NE coast, in Indonesia.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- empyreuma — the smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter
- encapture — (transitive) To capture.
- enrapture — Give intense pleasure or joy to.
- epicurean — Of or concerning Epicurus or his ideas.
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- epineural — (anatomy) Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.
- epineuria — sheaths of connective tissue around bundles of nerve fibres
- epuration — purification
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- fluorspar — fluorite.
- four-part — arranged for four voices or instruments
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gather up — collect
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.