10-letter words containing s, u, p
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- coup stick — a stick with which some North American Indian warriors sought to touch their enemies in battle as a sign of courage.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- cousinship — Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- 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
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- cup fungus — any small, often brightly colored mushroom of the family Pezizaceae, characterized by a fruiting body resembling a cup.
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- cupidinous — having a great desire or cupidity
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- deep focus — the focusing of a filmed scene so as to make near and distant objects equally clear.
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- depanneurs — Plural form of depanneur.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- deputising — to appoint as deputy.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dieselpunk — A postmodern genre of art as well as a budding subculture that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through World War II and ending circa 1950s (a range of time often referred to as the \u201cdiesel era\u201d by the dieselpunk community) with contemporary creations.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipetalous — bipetalous.