11-letter words containing s, u, p, e, r
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- drug pusher — someone who encourages others to take illegal drugs and who makes money supplying illegal drugs
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- epigastrium — The part of the upper abdomen immediately over the stomach.
- eriophorous — relating to cotton grass
- eureka step — In program transformation, a transformation which is not obvious or easy to define as an algorithm.
- eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- 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.
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- gomme syrup — simple syrup.
- grape sugar — dextrose.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- 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
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.