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11-letter words containing c, r, u, p

  • cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
  • 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
  • cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
  • cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
  • 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.
  • decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
  • disulphuric — pyrosulphuric
  • dot product — inner product (def 1).
  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • due process — established course of legal proceedings
  • 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.
  • end product — result of a process
  • ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
  • ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
  • eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
  • exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
  • fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
  • fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
  • fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
  • focus group — a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.
  • frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
  • grape juice — nectar of the grape
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
  • haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
  • humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
  • hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
  • hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
  • hypercasual — Extremely casual.
  • hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
  • implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
  • importunacy — the quality or condition of being importunate; importunateness.
  • incorrupted — not corrupted
  • incorruptly — Without corruption.
  • inculpatory — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
  • insculpture — an inscription or carving
  • intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
  • intercouple — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
  • intercupola — the space between an inner and an outer dome.
  • issue price — The issue price of shares is the price at which they are offered for sale when they first become available to the public.
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