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10-letter words containing u, a, p, e, s

  • popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
  • postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
  • pre-assume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
  • precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • premeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
  • presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
  • processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
  • pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
  • ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
  • puff paste — a rich dough for making puff pastry.
  • pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
  • pulse rate — the rate of the pulse: stated in pulsations per minute.
  • pultaceous — resembling pap
  • punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
  • punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
  • puntarenas — a seaport in W Costa Rica.
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • push ahead — move sth forward
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • push plate — a rectangular protective plate of metal, plastic, ceramic, or other material applied vertically to the lock stile of a door.
  • put to sea — the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
  • quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • scapulated — (of a raven) with white feathers across the scapular region
  • semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
  • septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
  • sharpen up — hone, refine
  • slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
  • smarten up — improve appearance
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