11-letter words containing u, n, p, r
- 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.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- 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
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- disruptants — Plural form of disruptant.
- disruptions — Plural form of disruption.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- 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.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- encapturing — Present participle of encapture.
- end product — result of a process
- enrapturing — Present participle of enrapture.
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- europeanize — to make European in culture, dress, etc
- expenditure — The action of spending funds.
- expurgating — Present participle of expurgate.
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- green pound — a unit of account used in calculating Britain's contributions to and payments from the Community Agricultural Fund of the EU
- ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
- ground pine — any of several species of club moss, especially Lycopodium obscurum or L. complanatum.
- ground pink — a plant, Linanthus dianthiflorus, of southern California, having pink or white flowers.
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
- groundspeed — the speed of an aircraft with reference to the ground.
- guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
- harpoon gun — a small cannon for shooting harpoons.
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptangular — having seven angles.