10-letter words containing p, u, r, e
- herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
- hiphuggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- impervious — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
- impictured — painted
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- importuner — One who importunes.
- importunes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of importune.
- impostures — Plural form of imposture.
- impressure — impression.
- imprudence — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- impureness — The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
- impurified — Simple past tense and past participle of impurify.
- impurities — the quality or state of being impure.
- intergroup — taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.
- interpubic — (anatomy) Between the pubic bones or cartilage.
- interrupts — interrupt
- isopterous — belonging or pertaining to social insects of the order Isoptera, comprising the termites.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- juan peron — Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- jubbulpore — Jabalpur.
- jumper ant — bulldog ant.
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- keep under — to remain or cause to remain below (a surface)
- keypuncher — A keypunch.
- krung thep — Bangkok
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- leg-puller — an amusing hoax, practical joke, or the like: The entire story was a hilarious leg-pull.
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- long purse — wealth; riches
- loup river — a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- mompreneur — Alternative form of mumpreneur.
- mont perdu — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- mug punter — a customer or client who is gullible and easily swindled