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11-letter words containing p, a, u, s

  • bean sprout — Bean sprouts are small, long, thin shoots grown from beans. They are frequently used in Chinese cookery.
  • beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
  • beauty spot — A beauty spot is a place in the country that is popular because of its beautiful scenery.
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • black stump — a long way off
  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blue spirea — a grayish, hairy, eastern Asian shrub, Caryopteris incana, of the verbena family, having clusters of showy, blue or bluish-purple flowers.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • buck passer — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • buck-passer — a person who regularly seeks to shift blame or responsibility to someone else
  • bumpsadaisy — an exclamation said to a child who has fallen down
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
  • campgrounds — Plural form of campground.
  • caniapiscau — a river in NE Quebec, Canada, flowing NW to the Larch River (Mélèzes) 575 miles (925 km) long.
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capaciously — In a capacious manner.
  • caper sauce — sauce flavoured with capers
  • capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment
  • capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
  • cappuccinos — Plural form of cappuccino.
  • capricornus — a faint zodiacal constellation in the S hemisphere, lying between Sagittarius and Aquarius
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • capsulizing — Present participle of capsulize.
  • capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
  • cardophagus — a donkey
  • carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
  • carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
  • cattywampus — catawampus
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chinquapins — Plural form of chinquapin.
  • chou pastry — cream puff paste.
  • chupacabras — Plural form of chupacabra.
  • cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
  • clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
  • constuprate — to rape or violate
  • cornucopias — Plural form of cornucopia.
  • corpuscular — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
  • craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
  • crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
  • crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
  • creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
  • crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
  • cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
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