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10-letter words containing u, p, a, s

  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
  • puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
  • push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
  • push ahead — move sth forward
  • push along — to go away
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • push plate — a rectangular protective plate of metal, plastic, ceramic, or other material applied vertically to the lock stile of a door.
  • push-start — to start (a motor vehicle) by pushing it while it is in gear, thus turning the engine
  • put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • put to sea — the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
  • quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or 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.
  • sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
  • scapulated — (of a raven) with white feathers across the scapular region
  • 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
  • scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
  • scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • sculptural — relating to sculpture
  • semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
  • 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.
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
  • sharpen up — hone, refine
  • sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
  • slip gauge — a very accurately ground block of hardened steel used to measure a gap with close accuracy: used mainly in tool-making and inspection
  • 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
  • soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
  • soundscape — the component sounds of an environment.
  • soup plate — a deep, concave plate used especially for serving soup.
  • sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
  • south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
  • space junk — objects such as artificial satellites, material discarded from space stations, etc that remain in space after use
  • space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
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