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10-letter words containing u, n, p

  • 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
  • read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
  • recoupment — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
  • regrouping — to form into a new or restructured group or grouping.
  • republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
  • repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
  • repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
  • 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 tape — (storage, jargon)   Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels. See macrotape, opposite: square tape.
  • round trip — a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.
  • runners-up — the competitor, player, or team finishing in second place, as in a race, contest, or tournament.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
  • saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
  • 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.
  • scrunch up — If you scrunch something up, you squeeze it or bend it so that it is no longer in its natural shape and is often crushed.
  • scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
  • 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
  • sharpen up — hone, refine
  • 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.
  • smarten up — improve appearance
  • snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
  • snapper up — a person who snaps up bargains, etc
  • snowplough — A snowplough is a vehicle which is used to push snow off roads or railway lines.
  • soundproof — impervious to sound.
  • soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
  • soup spoon — A soup spoon is a spoon used for eating soup. The bowl-like part at the end of it is round.
  • sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
  • space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
  • sparganium — a marsh plant
  • spellbound — bound by or as if by a spell; enchanted, entranced, or fascinated: a spellbound audience.
  • spelunking — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
  • spent fuel — nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor to the point where it is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction
  • spinaceous — pertaining to or of the nature of spinach; belonging to the amaranth family of plants.
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