11-letter words containing r, e, p, u
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- expenditure — The action of spending funds.
- export duty — a government tax paid on goods exported from a country
- expurgating — Present participle of expurgate.
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
- filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
- fixer-upper — a person who is handy at making repairs.
- fluorophore — (biochemistry) A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.
- 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.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- grape juice — nectar of the grape
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- group grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- group speed — the speed at which energy is propagated in a wave. This is the quantity determined when one measures the distance which the radiation travels in a given time. In a medium in which the speed increases with wavelength the group speed is less than the phase speed, and vice versa
- group-grope — sexual activity involving several people; orgy.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- guide price — a speculative price for something not yet offered for sale
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- gypsiferous — containing gypsum.
- harrumphers — Plural form of harrumpher.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- high jumper — a participant in the high jump.
- hip huggers — trousers that begin at the hips instead of the waist
- hip-huggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers