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11-letter words containing u, p, c, o

  • scapigerous — having a scape or leafless stalk
  • sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
  • scriptorium — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
  • scrumptious — very pleasing, especially to the senses; delectable; splendid: a scrumptious casserole; a scrumptious satin gown.
  • scuppernong — a silvery amber-green variety of muscadine grape.
  • sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
  • sipunculoid — a member of the group Sipunculoidea
  • slop bucket — slop pail.
  • snap course — an academic course that can be passed with a minimum of effort.
  • sock puppet — a hand puppet made out of a sock.
  • soup course — a part of a meal when soup is served
  • space group — a set of symmetry elements that brings a periodic arrangement of points on a Bravais space lattice to its original position.
  • spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
  • specialogue — a mail-order catalogue aimed at a specific group of customers
  • speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • speculatory — a place suitable for observation
  • sperm count — the number of spermatozoa in an amount of semen, used as an indication of a man's fertility
  • spice route — an ancient trade route followed by merchants, importers and exporters trading in exotic spices such as cloves and cinnamon
  • spiculation — formation into spicules.
  • spondulicks — money; cash.
  • stauroscope — an optical instrument for studying the crystal structure of minerals under polarized light
  • stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
  • sub-company — subsidiary company.
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
  • subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
  • suction cup — a cup-shaped object of rubber, glass, plastic, etc., which, by producing a partial vacuum, can be made to adhere to or draw something to a surface.
  • superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
  • superschool — a large school
  • supersonics — the branch of science that deals with supersonic phenomena.
  • support act — a band or entertainer not topping the bill
  • supracostal — above the rib
  • suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
  • tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
  • telescopium — an inconspicuous constellation in the S hemisphere, close to Sagittarius and Ara
  • top-up card — a card bought by a mobile phone user entitling him or her to a stipulated amount of credit for future calls
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • tough pitch — the state of refined copper when it is soft, malleable, and flexible: tough pitch copper.
  • trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
  • turcopolier — during the Crusades, an officer in charge of a section of turcopoles
  • unapostolic — not apostolic; not related to or characteristic of the early Christian apostles or their subsequent apostles
  • uncaptioned — a title or explanation for a picture or illustration, especially in a magazine.
  • uncompacted — not compacted
  • uncompanied — unaccompanied
  • uncompelled — to force or drive, especially to a course of action: His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him.
  • uncompetent — having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
  • uncompleted — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • uncompliant — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
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