10-letter words containing h, p, a, u
- saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
- spathulate — spatulate.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
- sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- superheavy — Chemistry, Physics. pertaining to any of a series of elements having an atomic number greater than 103.
- superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- supersharp — extremely sharp
- tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
- tautophony — the repetition of a sound
- the-plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
- tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- triumphant — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- ultrasharp — (of a monitor or screen) having very high definition
- unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unhampered — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- unhelpable — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- unpathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- unsympathy — lack of sympathy
- upanishads — any of a class of speculative prose treatises composed between the 8th and 6th centuries b.c. and first written a.d. c1300: they represent a philosophical development beyond the Vedas, having as their principal message the unity of Brahman and Atman.
- upflashing — flashing or flaring up
- upgathered — to gather up or together: to upgather information.
- upheapings — acts or instances of heaping up
- uphillward — in an uphill direction
- upper hand — the dominating or controlling position; advantage: to have the upper hand in the fight.
- upsmanship — one-upmanship.
- uriah heep — Uriah, Uriah Heep.
- urographic — of or relating to urography
- washing-up — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- what's up? — If you say to someone 'What's up?' or if you tell them what's up, you are asking them or telling them what is wrong or what is worrying them.
- xiphopagus — either of a pair of Siamese twins joined at the lower sternum or xiphoid process
- xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
- zoophagous — carnivorous.