10-letter words containing p, u, t
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- no-trumper — a hand suitable for calling and playing no trumps
- nonsupport — failure to support a spouse, child, or other dependent as required by law.
- nonutopian — not utopian
- notopodium — (zoology) The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium.
- nuptiality — The frequency or incidence of marriage within a population.
- occupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- ocean pout — an eelpout, Macrozoarces americanus, common along the northeastern coast of North America.
- octopusher — a person who plays octopush
- offputting — (uncommon) Alternative form of off-putting.
- open court — a court or trial to which members of the public are freely admitted
- open quote — the quotation mark used to begin a quotation (“ or ").
- operculate — having an operculum.
- outcompete — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outcropped — Simple past tense and past participle of outcrop.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outpassion — to surpass in passion
- outpatient — a patient who receives treatment at a hospital, as in an emergency room or clinic, but is not hospitalized.
- outperform — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of outpoint.
- outpouring — outpouring.
- outproduce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- outputting — the act of turning out; production: the factory's output of cars; artistic output.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- outstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of outstep.
- packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- panaritium — a whitlow
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- pandurated — fiddle-shaped
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- papulation — the formation or development of papules
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parimutuel — a system of betting on races in which those backing the winners divide, in proportion to their wagers, the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the track operators, taxes, etc.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
- pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
- pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.