11-letter words containing p, a, u, s
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
- dicephalous — having two heads
- disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
- dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.
- disputative — Tending to dispute.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- disruptants — Plural form of disruptant.
- doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
- draw stumps — to close play, as by pulling out the stumps
- draw trumps — to play the trump suit until the opponents have none left
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- east punjab — the eastern part of the former province of Punjab, in British India: now part of Punjab state, India.
- encapsulate — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- epigastrium — The part of the upper abdomen immediately over the stomach.
- epignathous — having a protruding upper jaw
- epipetalous — (of stamens) attached to the petals
- episepalous — growing upon a sepal
- epithalamus — A part of the dorsal forebrain including the pineal gland and a region in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
- euphausiids — Plural form of euphausiid.
- eureka step — In program transformation, a transformation which is not obvious or easy to define as an algorithm.
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- expostulate — Express strong disapproval or disagreement.
- exstipulate — (of a flowering plant) having no stipules
- fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman
- grape sugar — dextrose.