11-letter words containing r, e, p, u, c
- counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- counterploy — an opposing or retaliatory ploy
- counterpole — The exact opposite.
- counterpose — to place (something) in opposition to
- counterstep — an opposing step or measure
- countertops — Plural form of countertop.
- countertype — an opposite type
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
- cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- encapturing — Present participle of encapture.
- end product — result of a process
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hypercasual — Extremely casual.
- hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
- implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
- incorrupted — not corrupted
- insculpture — an inscription or carving