11-letter words containing u, n, p
- counter-pin — bedspread.
- countercoup — the act of overthrowing a government that gained power via a coup d'état
- counterpace — a countermove
- 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 bond — a bond, usually a bearer bond, that pays interest by means of coupons with specific cash values.
- 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
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- 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
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- 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
- disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.
- disruptants — Plural form of disruptant.
- disruptions — Plural form of disruption.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- 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.
- duck typing — (programming) A term coined by Dave Thomas for a kind of dynamic typing typical of some programming languages, such as Smalltalk, Ruby or Visual FoxPro, where a variable's run-time value determines the operations that can be performed on it. The term comes from the "duck test": if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Duck typing considers the methods to which a value responds and the attributes it posesses rather than its relationship to a type hierarchy. This encourages greater polymorphism because types are enforced as late as possible.
- 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