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10-letter words containing h, a, p, u

  • lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
  • mouth harp — harmonica (def 1).
  • mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
  • multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
  • mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
  • musophobia — Fear of mice.
  • nalbuphine — a potent synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 7 NO 4 , used as an analgesic for moderate to severe pain.
  • naturopath — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
  • nautophone — an electrically operated horn for giving fog warnings.
  • neuropathy — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
  • oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
  • omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
  • paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
  • parachutic — involving a parachute
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
  • picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
  • play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
  • ploughable — able to be ploughed
  • ploughgate — a measurement of ploughable land
  • ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
  • ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
  • pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
  • polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
  • possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
  • postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
  • pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
  • prothallus — prothallium.
  • protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
  • pubic hair — hair growing in genital area
  • punch card — punched card
  • punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
  • punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
  • purchasing — buying
  • puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
  • push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
  • push ahead — move sth forward
  • push along — to go away
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • push plate — a rectangular protective plate of metal, plastic, ceramic, or other material applied vertically to the lock stile of a door.
  • push-start — to start (a motor vehicle) by pushing it while it is in gear, thus turning the engine
  • rajpramukh — (in India) the title given to a governor or raja of a state between 1948 and 1956
  • ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
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