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10-letter words containing u, n, p, e, t, i

  • perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
  • piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
  • pinguitude — fatness
  • 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.
  • plentitude — abundance or fullness
  • pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
  • plummeting — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
  • pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
  • precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
  • prenuptial — before marriage.
  • proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • prudentius — Aurelius Clemens (ɔːˈriːlɪəs ˈklɛmɛnz). 348–410 ad, Latin Christian poet, born in Spain. His works include the allegory Psychomachia
  • punishment — the act of punishing.
  • punitively — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
  • puritanize — to (cause to) behave like a puritan
  • putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
  • puy lentil — a greyish-green variety of lentil that retains its shape after cooking
  • quintupled — Simple past tense and past participle of quintuple.
  • quintuples — Plural form of quintuple.
  • quintuplet — any group or combination of five, especially of the same kind.
  • quintuplex — fivefold; quintuple.
  • reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
  • resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
  • septennium — a period or cycle of seven years
  • 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.
  • setting-up — the establishment or creation of something
  • sputtering — the act or sound of sputtering.
  • stupefying — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • stupidness — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
  • subpontine — of or relating to the Pontine Marshes.
  • subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
  • superpaint — (graphics)   A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
  • suscipient — a recipient
  • suspecting — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
  • tighten up — fasten more securely
  • tripehound — an objectionable person
  • trumpeting — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
  • turpentine — any of various oleoresins derived from coniferous trees, especially the longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, and yielding a volatile oil and a resin when distilled.
  • turpentiny — of, containing, or similar to turpentine
  • unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
  • unbaptized — not baptized
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