10-letter words containing p, u, l, e
- collect up — If you collect up things, you bring them all together, usually when you have finished using them.
- colporteur — a hawker of books, esp bibles
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- computable — computability theory
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- corpulence — fatness or stoutness of body; obesity
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
- corpuscles — Plural form of corpuscle.
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- coupleable — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- couplement — the action of coupling or the state of being coupled
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- crepuscule — twilight; dusk
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- cycle pump — a hand pump for pumping air into the tyres of a bicycle
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- decoupling — the separation of previously linked systems so that they may operate independently
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- disulphide — (in inorganic chemistry) a sulfide containing two atoms of sulfur, as carbon disulfide, CS 2 .
- double cup — (in Renaissance art) a matched pair of metal cups, made so that one can be placed inverted on top of the other.
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- 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.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- emplastrum — a medicated plaster
- empurpling — Present participle of empurple.
- encephalum — The brain of an insect.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed