11-letter words containing c, r, u, p
- 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.
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- leptokurtic — (of a frequency distribution) being more concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- local group — the group of galaxies, at least 25 of which are known, that includes the Milky Way.
- lotusscript — (language) A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
- loupcervier — the Canada lynx.
- lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
- lunarscapes — Plural form of lunarscape.
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- 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.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- microporous — composed of or having extremely small pores.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- neuroleptic — (chiefly of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- neurotropic — having an affinity for nerve cells or tissue: a neurotropic virus; a neurotropic drug.
- neutropenic — Having neutropenia.
- non-corrupt — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- noncomputer — Not of or pertaining to computers.
- 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.
- open source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- open-source — Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- optocoupler — An optoisolator.
- out-process — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outcropping — Geology. a cropping out, as of a stratum or vein at the surface of the earth. the exposed portion of such a stratum or vein.
- outer space — space beyond the atmosphere of the earth.
- overpicture — to describe or portray with exaggeration
- overproduce — to produce more of (a product or commodity) than is required
- 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
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- paramaecium — a microscopic unicellular ciliate protozoa
- paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- parascenium — either of two wings flanking and extending forward from the skene of an ancient Greek theater.
- parasuicide — the deliberate infliction of injury on oneself or the taking of a drug overdose as an attempt at suicide which may not be intended to be successful