12-letter words containing c, u, p, a, s
- culpableness — The state or quality of being culpable.
- cupid's dart — blue succory.
- cupid's-dart — blue succory.
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
- dipsacaceous — belonging to the Dipsacaceae, the teasel family of plants.
- disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
- double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
- duplications — Plural form of duplication.
- encapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of encapsulate.
- encapsulates — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- escape chute — a fabric tube or chute hinged to the wall of a stairwell and used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escape route — way out: of situation
- eucalyptuses — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- inauspicious — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- ipecac syrup — a preparation containing ipecac in a syrupy medium, used as an emetic.
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- macrocarpous — having large fruit.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- make-up case — a case in which cosmetics are kept
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- necrophagous — That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- octopetalous — containing or consisting of eight petals
- octosepalous — having or consisting of eight sepals
- optoacoustic — relating to the relationship between light and sound
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pachycarpous — having a thick pericarp
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.