9-letter words containing s, u, p
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crapulous — characterized by intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauched
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- crepuscle — twilight
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.
- cup shake — wind shake.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cuppiness — The state or quality of being cuppy.
- cupressus — any tree of the genus Cupressus
- curseperl — A curses library for Perl by the author of Perl, Larry Wall <[email protected]>. It comes with Perl.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- decouples — Separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.
- decus cpp — An almost-ANSI C preprocessor by Martin Minow. It is shipped with X11R5 (contrib/util/cpp) because some systems don't have a working cpp. It runs on VMS (Vax C, Decus C), RSX-11M, RSTS/E, P/OS, RT11, A/UX and Apollo Domain/IX 9.6 and is highly portable.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- diapauses — Plural form of diapause.
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- displumed — Simple past tense and past participle of displume.
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- dispursed — Simple past tense and past participle of dispurse.
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- disputing — to engage in argument or debate.
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- docu-soap — a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama
- docusoaps — Plural form of docusoap.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- duck soup — something that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
- dummkopfs — Plural form of dummkopf.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- dumpiness — The quality of being dumpy.
- dumpishly — in a downhearted and despondent manner
- dumplings — Plural form of dumpling.