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

  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
  • precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • procacious — insolent
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
  • pupiparous — (of an insect) bearing fully developed larvae that are ready to pupate.
  • purchasing — buying
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  • pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • sparganium — a marsh plant
  • spermarium — the sperm gland
  • spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spirituals — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
  • sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
  • stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
  • subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
  • sugar pine — a tall pine, Pinus lambertiana, of California, Oregon, etc., having cones 20 inches (51 cm) long.
  • sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • superbrain — (computer)   A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec. The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz, one for the main processing and the other for peripheral activities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. It was sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an 8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74. The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a network connection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units. The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KB drives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k. Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 bus for these machines. The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. The network was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three "file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the "DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MB consisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the "Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertec manufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure and power supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the 96MB. The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II.
  • supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
  • superpaint — (graphics)   A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
  • supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
  • supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
  • suprapubic — above the pubic bone
  • supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
  • surpassing — of a large amount or high degree; exceeding, excelling, or extraordinary: structures of surpassing magnificence.
  • unapprised — not informed or apprised of something
  • unaspiring — lacking ambition or aspiration
  • unparadise — to deprive of or expel from paradise
  • unprisable — not able to be prised or released from a grip
  • unsparring — direct or forceful
  • up in arms — Usually, arms. weapons, especially firearms.
  • uproarious — characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
  • usurpation — an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
  • vide supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see above
  • viviparous — Zoology. bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes.
  • xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
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