10-letter words containing l, u, p
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- cycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- 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.
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- displuming — Present participle of displume.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disulphide — (in inorganic chemistry) a sulfide containing two atoms of sulfur, as carbon disulfide, CS 2 .
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- drain plug — A drain plug is a plug which is taken out to allow a fluid to be drained from a tank such as an engine oil pan or sump.
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- emplastrum — a medicated plaster
- empurpling — Present participle of empurple.
- encephalum — The brain of an insect.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- epaulement — a construction to protect troops from attack
- epauletted — Alternative form of epauleted.
- epaulettes — Plural form of epaulette.
- epicuticle — The thin, waxy, protective outer layer covering the surfaces of some plants, fungi, insects, and other arthropods.
- epithelium — The thin tissue forming the outer layer of a body’s surface and lining the alimentary canal and other hollow structures.