11-letter words containing c, u, p, e
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
- cued speech — a method of communication in which a speaker uses a system of manual cues to aid a lipreader by clarifying potentially ambiguous mouth movements with hand gestures.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- 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
- cut-up poem — a poem created from parts of the works of various authors combined to form one composition.
- 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.
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
- dicephalous — having two heads
- disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donut peach — fruit
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
- duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
- duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
- duplicident — (of certain animals, such as rabbits) having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- emphyteutic — pertaining to emphyteusis
- encapsulate — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- 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
- epicuticles — Plural form of epicuticle.
- equipotency — The condition of being equipotent.
- eupepticity — the condition of being eupeptic
- euphemistic — Using or of the nature of a euphemism.
- eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
- exculpating — Present participle of exculpate.