10-letter words containing p, r, u
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- disrupture — interruption; disruption.
- 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.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dressed up — in evening wear
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drugpusher — a person who sells illicit drugs.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- dukkeripen — fortune-telling
- 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.
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- 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.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- durga puja — Dasehra.
- 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
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
- enraptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enrapture.
- 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.
- epicureans — Plural form of epicurean.
- 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.
- éprouvette — a device for assessing the strength of gunpowder
- equiparate — equivalent
- eriophorum — cotton grass
- eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
- eupatorium — (botany) Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.
- euphemizer — One who, or that which, euphemizes.
- euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.
- euphorbium — an acrid resin obtained from several species of Euphorbia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative and emetic
- euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
- euphrosyne — one of the three Graces
- europhilia — The love of Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
- europhobia — dislike for or hostility to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- europhobic — hostile to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- eurypterid — An extinct marine arthropod of a group occurring in the Paleozoic era. They are related to horseshoe crabs and resemble large scorpions with a terminal pair of paddle-shaped swimming appendages.