11-letter words containing p, u, l, e
- cherry plum — a small widely planted Asian rosaceous tree, Prunus cerasifera, with white flowers and red or yellow cherry-like fruit
- clapped out — (of machinery or appliances) worn-out; dilapidated.
- clapped-out — If you describe a person or a machine as clapped-out, you mean that they are old and no longer able to work properly.
- clean up on — to defeat; beat
- close up/to — If you look at something close up or close to, you look at it when you are very near to it.
- cloudscapes — Plural form of cloudscape.
- cluster cup — aecium.
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- compulsives — Plural form of compulsive.
- cone pulley — (on a lathe) a pulley consisting of a conelike arrangement of graduated, concentric pulleys for driving the headstock at different speeds.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- copy module — copybook
- corpulently — In a corpulent manner.
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- corruptable — Able to be corrupted.
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- counterplan — an opposing plan
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- counterploy — an opposing or retaliatory ploy
- counterpole — The exact opposite.
- coup d'oeil — a quick glance
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- culdoscopes — Plural form of culdoscope.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
- decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
- deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
- delphiniums — Plural form of delphinium.
- demand-pull — designating or having to do with a form of inflation in which prices are driven up by an excess demand for goods and services, relative to their supply
- demultiplex — (electronics) To separate signals that were previously multiplexed (combined using a multiplexer).
- dental pulp — pulp (def 4).
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- depopulated — (of a place) reduced in population
- depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- 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.
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- double jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
- double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.