10-letter words containing u, p, r
- buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
- buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burst page — banner
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capraesque — relating to or in the style of the movies of Frank Capra, focusing on courage and its positive effects and the triumph of the underdog.
- capricious — Someone who is capricious often changes their mind unexpectedly.
- capsorubin — (organic compound) A di-hydroxy, keto carotenoid, which, together with capsanthin, constitutes the red pigment of paprika.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- card punch — keypunch (def 1).
- card-punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- carpsucker — any of several freshwater suckers of the genus Carpiodes, as the quillback and the river carpsucker.
- charged up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chirruping — Present participle of chirrup.
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- co-produce — to produce (a film, play, television programme, etc) with another person
- colporteur — a hawker of books, esp bibles
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- composture — compost or manure
- composures — Plural form of composure.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- compu$erve — (Or "CompuSpend", "Compu$pend") A pejorative name for CompuServe Information Service (CI$) drawing attention to perceived high charges.
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- compuserve — CompuServe Information Service
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- conjure up — If you conjure up a memory, picture, or idea, you create it in your mind.
- contrecoup — an injury, esp to the brain, that occurs at the opposite side of the body from that which was struck
- copernicus — Nicolaus (ˌnɪkəˈleɪəs). Polish name Mikołaj Kopernik. 1473–1543, Polish astronomer, whose theory of the solar system (the Copernican system) was published in 1543
- coproduced — to produce (a motion picture, play, etc.) in collaboration with others.
- coproducer — a joint producer
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copurifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copurify.
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- corn syrup — syrup prepared from maize
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- corpulence — fatness or stoutness of body; obesity
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.