10-letter words containing p, u, t
- eutrapelia — the quality of being skilled in conversation; wit; urbanity
- exceptious — prone to taking exception or raising objections
- exculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of exculpate.
- exculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exculpate.
- exit pupil — the smallest cross section of the beam of light from the eyepiece of a telescope through which all the light from the eyepiece passes. Its diameter is equal to the ratio of the focal length of the eyepiece to the focal ratio of the telescope
- expunction — The act of expunging or erasing.
- expurgated — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- expurgator — One who expurgates.
- face up to — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- feel up to — to perceive or examine by touch.
- fepped out — (jargon) /fept owt/ The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor (FEP). When the main processor gets wedged, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen. Such a machine is said to have "fepped out" or "dropped into the fep".
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- fluorotype — an early form of photograph produced on paper treated with sodium fluoride
- foot-pound — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one pound when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-lb.
- fourposter — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- fruit drop — the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
- fruit shop — a shop that sells a variety of edible fruits
- gastro-pub — A gastro-pub is a pub that serves very good food.
- gastropubs — Plural form of gastropub.
- goloptious — voluptuous
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- groundplot — Aeronautics. a method for obtaining the position of an aircraft by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and marking off the product with respect to its starting position.
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- 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.
- guideposts — Plural form of guidepost.
- guilt-trip — Informal. to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of. See also guilt (def 4).
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- happy dust — cocaine.
- happy-dust — cocaine.
- hatshepsut — 1495–75 b.c, queen of Egypt.
- hephaestus — the ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking, and handicrafts, identified by the Romans with Vulcan.
- heptateuch — the first seven books of the Old Testament.
- hippolytus — Also, Hippolytos [hi-pol-i-tuh s, -tos] /hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs, -ˌtɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hippuritic — of, relating to, or containing hippurites
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hugh capet — Hugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
- hypanthium — a cup-shaped or tubular body formed by the conjoined sepals, petals, and stamens.
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hypoptilum — (ornithology) An aftershaft.
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- impictured — painted
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- importuner — One who importunes.