10-letter words containing m, p, u
- composture — compost or manure
- composures — Plural form of composure.
- compound q — trichosanthin: an antiviral drug derived from the root of a Chinese cucumber plant, used in the treatment of AIDS.
- compounded — If something is compounded of different things, it is a mixture of those things.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- compu$erve — (Or "CompuSpend", "Compu$pend") A pejorative name for CompuServe Information Service (CI$) drawing attention to perceived high charges.
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- compuserve — CompuServe Information Service
- computable — computability theory
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- couplement — the action of coupling or the state of being coupled
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- 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
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- decompound — (of a compound leaf) having leaflets consisting of several distinct parts
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- displuming — Present participle of displume.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- dump truck — a usually open-topped truck having a body that can be tilted to discharge its contents, as sand or gravel, through an open tailgate.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- emplastrum — a medicated plaster
- empurpling — Present participle of empurple.
- emu parade — an army exercise devoted to emu-bobbing
- encephalum — The brain of an insect.
- epaulement — a construction to protect troops from attack
- ephemerous — relating to an ephemeron
- epicardium — A serous membrane that forms the innermost layer of the pericardium and the outer surface of the heart.
- epicentrum — the focus of an earthquake
- epicranium — (anatomy) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
- epidendrum — an orchid belonging to the Epidendrum genus
- epineurium — (anatomy) The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.
- episternum — (anatomy) The upper segment of the sternum.
- epithelium — The thin tissue forming the outer layer of a body’s surface and lining the alimentary canal and other hollow structures.
- eponychium — (anatomy) cuticle (thickened layer of skin on fingernails and toenails).
- equipments — (nonstandard) Plural form of equipment.
- eriophorum — cotton grass