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10-letter words containing p, s, e, u

  • puff paste — a rich dough for making puff pastry.
  • pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
  • pulse rate — the rate of the pulse: stated in pulsations per minute.
  • pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
  • pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
  • pultaceous — resembling pap
  • pump house — a building where pumps and other pumping equipment have been installed
  • pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
  • punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
  • punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
  • punishment — the act of punishing.
  • puntarenas — a seaport in W Costa Rica.
  • pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • purposeful — having a purpose.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • pursership — the position of purser
  • push ahead — move sth forward
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
  • push plate — a rectangular protective plate of metal, plastic, ceramic, or other material applied vertically to the lock stile of a door.
  • pussy-toes — any of various woolly composite plants of the genus Antennaria, having small white or grayish flower heads.
  • put to sea — the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
  • put to use — to use; find a use for
  • putrescent — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
  • putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
  • pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
  • pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
  • quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
  • queen post — either of a pair of timbers or posts extending vertically upward from the tie beam of a roof truss or the like, one on each side of the center.
  • quersprung — a jump turn in which a skier lands at right angles to the pole or poles.
  • quicksteps — Plural form of quickstep.
  • quintuples — Plural form of quintuple.
  • quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • red spruce — a spruce, Picea rubens, of eastern North America, having reddish-brown bark and cones and yielding a light, soft wood used for pulp, in the construction of boxes, etc.
  • repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
  • repoussoir — a figure or object in the extreme foreground: used as a contrast and to increase the illusion of depth.
  • reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • reputeless — without repute; ignominious
  • respectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
  • resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
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