11-letter words containing u, n, p, e
- counterpane — A counterpane is a decorative cover on a bed.
- counterpart — Someone's or something's counterpart is another person or thing that has a similar function or position in a different place.
- counterplan — an opposing plan
- counterplay — a positive or aggressive action by the defending side, esp in chess
- counterplea — a reply to a plea
- counterplot — a plot designed to frustrate another plot
- counterploy — an opposing or retaliatory ploy
- counterpole — The exact opposite.
- counterpose — to place (something) in opposition to
- counterstep — an opposing step or measure
- countertops — Plural form of countertop.
- countertype — an opposite type
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
- decompounds — Plural form of decompound.
- delphiniums — Plural form of delphinium.
- demand-pull — designating or having to do with a form of inflation in which prices are driven up by an excess demand for goods and services, relative to their supply
- dental pulp — pulp (def 4).
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- deputations — Plural form of deputation.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donut peach — fruit
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
- duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
- duplicident — (of certain animals, such as rabbits) having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- east punjab — the eastern part of the former province of Punjab, in British India: now part of Punjab state, India.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- eleven-plus — The eleven-plus is an exam which was taken by children in Britain at about the age of eleven, in order to decide which secondary school they should go to.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- encapsulate — Enclose (something) in or as if in a capsule.
- encapturing — Present participle of encapture.
- end product — result of a process
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- enrapturing — Present participle of enrapture.
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- epignathous — having a protruding upper jaw
- eponymously — In an eponymous manner; as in the named character of a book etc.