11-letter words containing r, u, p, e
- up-gathered — to gather up or together: to upgather information.
- upgradeable — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
- upholstress — a female upholsterer
- upper bound — an element greater than or equal to all the elements in a given set: 3 and 4 are upper bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3. Compare bound3 (def 4), greatest lower bound, least upper bound, lower bound.
- upper class — a class of people above the middle class, having the highest social rank or standing based on wealth, family connections, and the like.
- upper crust — the topmost layer of crust, as of a pie.
- upper darby — a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- upper egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
- upper floor — An upper floor in a hotel is on a level above the first floor.
- upper house — one of two branches of a legislature generally smaller and less representative than the lower branch, as the Senate of the U.S. Congress.
- upper sixth — (in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) the final year of sixth form
- upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
- uprightness — erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
- upset price — the lowest price at which a person is permitted to bid for something being sold at auction.
- upstretched — stretched upward, as the arms.
- urediospore — the spore of the rust fungi that appears between the aeciospore and the teliospore, commonly the summer spore.
- utopianizer — an idealist
- vituperable — deserving of blame
- wander plug — an electrical plug on the end of a flexible wire, for insertion into any of a number of sockets
- waterspouts — Plural form of waterspout.
- wellreputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- wire-puller — a person or thing that pulls wires.
- wirepulling — an act of pulling wires.
- xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
- zero-coupon — of or relating to a debt obligation that bears no interest but that is sold substantially below its face value.
- zx spectrum — (computer) Sinclair's first personal computer with a colour display. The Spectrum used the Zilog Z80 processor like its predecessors the ZX-80 and ZX-81. It was originally available in 16k and 48k versions using cassette tape and later grew to 128k and sprouted floppy disks. It had a wider and more solid case and a marginally better "dead flesh" keyboard. Unlike the earlier models, it didn't require the presence of a cold carton of milk to prevent it overheating. It was possibly the most popular home computer in the UK for many years. The TK-90X was a clone.
- zygopleural — possessing symmetry on both sides