10-letter words containing p, u, r, s
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- grumpiness — The state, or act, of being grumpy.
- guest rope — a rope suspended from the side of a vessel or a boom as an object to which other vessels can moor, or to afford a hold for persons in such vessels.
- guest-rope — a rope suspended from the side of a vessel or a boom as an object to which other vessels can moor, or to afford a hold for persons in such vessels.
- gunpersons — Plural form of gunperson.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- 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.
- hipparchus — died 514 b.c, tyrant of Athens 527–514.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
- impervious — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
- importunes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of importune.
- impostrous — (archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
- impostures — Plural form of imposture.
- impressure — impression.
- impromptus — made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds.
- impureness — The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
- impurities — the quality or state of being impure.
- inpourings — Plural form of inpouring.
- interrupts — interrupt
- irruptions — Plural form of irruption.
- isopterous — belonging or pertaining to social insects of the order Isoptera, comprising the termites.
- isosporous — having spores of only one kind
- isotropous — (archaic) isotropic.
- jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- jump spark — spark1 (def 2).
- jump-start — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- jumpstarts — Plural form of jumpstart.
- 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.
- long purse — wealth; riches
- lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- 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.
- micropumps — Plural form of micropump.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- 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.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- neurospora — a genus of fast-growing orange-red fungus characterized by markings on the spores resembling axons, used widely in genetic and biochemical research