11-letter words containing u, p, i
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- clutch slip — Clutch slip is a faulty condition in which there is not enough friction in the clutch, so that engine speed rises without a corresponding increase in road speed.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- compositous — relating to or belonging to the plant family Asteraceae
- compounding — the addition of interest on interest already earned or charged
- compulsions — Plural form of compulsion.
- compulsitor — a thing, such as a mandate, that compels
- compulsives — Plural form of compulsive.
- compunction — If you say that someone has no compunction about doing something, you mean that they do it without feeling ashamed or guilty.
- computation — Computation is mathematical calculation.
- computative — of, relating to, or involving computation
- computerise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerize.
- computerist — a computer user
- computerize — To computerize a system, process, or type of work means to arrange for a lot of the work to be done by computer.
- computernik — a person who is very interested in, and knowledgeable about, computers
- conceptious — prolific or fruitful
- conspicious — Misspelling of conspicuous.
- conspicuity — conspicuousness
- conspicuous — If someone or something is conspicuous, people can see or notice them very easily.
- consumption — The consumption of fuel or natural resources is the amount of them that is used or the act of using them.
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- copiousness — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- cornucopian — Classical Mythology. a horn containing food, drink, etc., in endless supply, said to have been a horn of the goat Amalthaea.
- cornucopias — Plural form of cornucopia.
- corpus vile — a person or thing fit only to be the object of an experiment
- corruptible — susceptible to corruption; capable of being corrupted
- corruptions — Plural form of corruption.
- counter-pin — bedspread.
- coup d'oeil — a quick glance
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- cropdusting — the spreading of fungicide, etc on crops in the form of dust, often from an aircraft
- cruise ship — A cruise ship is a large ship which takes people from place to place on a cruise holiday, and on which entertainment, food, and drink are provided.
- cuckoo spit — a white frothy mass on the stems and leaves of many plants, produced by froghopper larvae (cuckoo spit insects), which feed on the plant juices
- cuckoo-spit — Also called frog spit. a frothy secretion found on plants, exuded by the young of certain insects, as the froghoppers, and serving as a protective covering.
- cuckoopints — Plural form of cuckoopint.
- culpability — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- 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
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
- cupronickel — any ductile corrosion-resistant copper alloy containing up to 40 per cent nickel: used in coins, condenser tubes, turbine blades, etc
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- curie point — the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custard pie — Custard pies are artificial pies which people sometimes throw at each other as a joke.
- custard-pie — characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.