10-letter words containing r, u, p, e
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countertop — A countertop is a flat surface in a kitchen which is easily cleaned and on which you can prepare food.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crepuscule — twilight; dusk
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- depanneurs — Plural form of depanneur.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- disreputed — Simple past tense and past participle of disrepute.
- disrupters — Plural form of disrupter.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- disrupture — interruption; disruption.
- dressed up — in evening wear
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drugpusher — a person who sells illicit drugs.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- duck press — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- dukkeripen — fortune-telling
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- emplastrum — a medicated plaster
- empurpling — Present participle of empurple.
- emu parade — an army exercise devoted to emu-bobbing
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.
- enraptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enrapture.