10-letter words containing u, n, a, p
- piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
- plankalkül — (language, history) (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first programming language, designed by Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included arrays and records and used a style of assignment in which the new value appears on the right. Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before 1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of World War II.
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plenilunar — relating to a full moon
- ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- population — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pound cake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- pozzuolana — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
- praemunire — a writ charging the offense of resorting to a foreign court or authority, as that of the pope, and thus calling in question the supremacy of the English crown.
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- prefuneral — the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- prenatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- prenuclear — of or relating to the era before the development of nuclear weapons.
- prenuptial — before marriage.
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulp canal — root canal.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- punch card — punched card
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- punctation — punctate condition or marking.
- punctually — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- punctulate — studded with minute points or dots.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- puntarenas — a seaport in W Costa Rica.