11-letter words containing c, r, a, p, u
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- 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
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- 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.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- encapturing — Present participle of encapture.
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
- frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hypercasual — Extremely casual.
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- importunacy — the quality or condition of being importunate; importunateness.
- inculpatory — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
- jack-up rig — an offshore drill rig or platform having a floating hull fitted with retractable legs that can be lowered to the seabed to elevate the hull above wave level.
- justaucorps — a fitted, knee-length coat, characterized by wide turned-back cuffs and stiff flared skirts, worn especially by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
- lunarscapes — Plural form of lunarscape.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
- nuclear sap — karyolymph
- numeric pad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- nuncupatory — Nuncupative; oral rather than written.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- papyraceous — papery.
- parachuting — descent using parachute