10-letter words containing u, n, p, i
- 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
- puzzlingly — in a puzzling manner
- quintipara — A female that has borne five offspring.
- 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.
- quoin post — the vertical post at the side of a lock gate, about which the gate swings
- regrouping — to form into a new or restructured group or grouping.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- 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.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- round trip — a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
- saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- saint pius — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- scindapsus — any plant of the tropical Asiatic climbing genus Scindapsus, typically stem rooting, esp S. aureus and S. pictus, grown as greenhouse or house plants for their leathery heart-shaped variegated leaves: family Araceae
- scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
- 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
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- sipunculid — an invertebrate of the phylum Sipuncula, comprising the peanut worms.
- sparganium — a marsh plant
- spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
- spinnerule — part of the spinneret of a spider
- sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- springbuck — springbok.
- spunkiness — plucky; spirited.
- spur veins — the veins of a horse that can be damaged by a rider's spurs
- 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.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- 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).
- subspinous — situated beneath the spine's protruding vertebrae or 'bumps'
- sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- summing-up — a summation or statement made for the purpose of reviewing the basic concepts or principles of an argument, story, explanation, testimony, or the like, and usually presented at the end.
- sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- sun spider — any predatory, scorpionlike arachnid of the order Solifugae (or Solpugida), having enormously developed mouth pincers and a long body covered with tactile hairs, inhabiting deserts and plains regions in all warm parts of the world except Australia.