10-letter words containing c, u, s, p
- corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
- corpuscles — Plural form of corpuscle.
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- coup stick — a stick with which some North American Indian warriors sought to touch their enemies in battle as a sign of courage.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- cousinship — Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crepuscule — twilight; dusk
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- cup fungus — any small, often brightly colored mushroom of the family Pezizaceae, characterized by a fruiting body resembling a cup.
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- cupidinous — having a great desire or cupidity
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- deep focus — the focusing of a filmed scene so as to make near and distant objects equally clear.
- diplacusis — a difference in hearing by the two ears so that one sound is heard as two.
- diplodocus — a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- epicanthus — (anatomy) A skin fold of the upper eyelid, typical to East Asians.
- epicureans — Plural form of epicurean.
- eucalyptus — A fast-growing evergreen Australasian tree that has been widely introduced elsewhere . It is valued for its timber, oil, gum, and resin, and as an ornamental tree.
- euphuistic — Of or pertaining to euphuism.
- euplastics — the art of healing well
- exceptious — prone to taking exception or raising objections
- exculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exculpate.