10-letter words containing p, u, t, e
- trumped up — spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated: He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.
- trumped-up — spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated: He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- trumpeting — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
- tule perch — See under perch2 (def 3).
- tulip tree — Also called tulip poplar, yellow poplar. a tall tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, of the magnolia family, native to the eastern U.S., having large, cup-shaped, green and orange flowers: the state tree of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
- tupperware — Tupperware is a range of plastic containers with tight-fitting lids that are used for storing food.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turpentine — any of various oleoresins derived from coniferous trees, especially the longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, and yielding a volatile oil and a resin when distilled.
- turpentiny — of, containing, or similar to turpentine
- type genus — the genus that is formally held to be typical of the family or other higher group to which it belongs.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- unaccepted — generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.
- unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
- unapparent — readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view; visible: The crack in the wall was readily apparent.
- unbaptized — not baptized
- uncaptured — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncarpeted — having no carpet
- uncomplete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- underpants — drawers or shorts worn under outer clothing, usually next to the skin.
- underpitch — of or relating to a type of groin-vaulted ceiling construction
- underplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- underslept — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
- undertrump — to play a lower trump on a trick to which a higher trump has already been played
- undisputed — to engage in argument or debate.
- unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unexempted — to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release: to exempt a student from an examination.
- unexpected — not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure; an unexpected development.
- unexpiated — not expiated or atoned for
- unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- unimparted — not communicated (to another person)
- unipartite — made as or consisting of only one part
- uniseptate — Biology. having only one septum or partition, as a silicle.
- unit price — rate1 (def 3).
- unoperated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- unparental — not befitting a parent
- unparented — having no parent or parents
- unpastured — not used as pasture
- unpatented — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- unpathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- unpedantic — not pedantic; informal
- unphonetic — not phonetic
- unpleasant — not pleasant; displeasing; disagreeable; offensive: an unpleasant taste; an unpleasant situation; an unpleasant manner.
- unpolitely — impolitely
- unpolluted — made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted: swimming in polluted waters.
- unpregnant — not pregnant; not carrying a fetus in the womb
- unpriestly — not befitting a priest