11-letter words containing r, u, p, e
- recuperator — a person or thing that recuperates.
- red puccoon — bloodroot; a plant yielding a red dye
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.
- repetiteuse — a female repetiteur, one who rehearses opera singers
- repetitious — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- republisher — a person who republishes
- repudiation — the act of repudiating.
- repudiative — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- repudiatory — the act of repudiating.
- repugnantly — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- repurchaser — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- res publica — the state, republic, or commonwealth
- resuspended — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- return trip — the journey back from a destination
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rip current — undertow (def 1).
- rough paper — paper that is used for writing a rough copy
- ruby spinel — a deep red, transparent variety of spinel, used as a gem.
- rupes altai — a mountain range in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 315 miles (507 km) long.
- rupturewort — a plant, Herniaria glabra, of the pink family
- scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
- scarlet cup — a small, fleshy, saucer-shaped fungus, Sarcoscypha coccinea, of the family Sarcoscyphaceae, marked by a scarlet inner surface and white exterior, seen on fallen branches in the spring.
- scrap value — what sth is worth for recycling or reuse
- screen dump — the act or process of printing or saving the graphical or textual data displayed on a computer screen.
- scrip issue — an issue of free shares distributed pro rata to existing stockholders instead of a dividend.
- scrupleless — a moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
- semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
- semipopular — relatively popular; quite popular
- sempervivum — any of various succulent plants belonging to the genus Sempervivum, of the stonecrop family, having leaves in dense basal rosettes and a compact, flat-topped cluster of flowers, and including the houseleek, S. tectorum, and other commonly cultivated species.
- sempiternum — a type of durable woollen fabric popular in the 17th century
- septenarius — a verse consisting of seven feet, usually printed in two lines: used especially in Latin poems.
- septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- serpiginous — (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shot putter — a sportsperson who competes in the shot put
- shot-putter — a participant in shot put.
- show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes to forest fires inaccessible to ground crews.
- snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
- soup course — a part of a meal when soup is served
- soup tureen — a large bowl with a lid, from which soup is served at the table
- sour grapes — bitterness about sth unattainable
- space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
- spectacular — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- specularity — the state of resembling a mirror
- speculatory — a place suitable for observation