10-letter words containing u, p, r
- corpuscles — Plural form of corpuscle.
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- corrupting — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cough drop — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- counterpin — bedspread.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countertop — A countertop is a flat surface in a kitchen which is easily cleaned and on which you can prepare food.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- cracked up — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cranked up — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crepuscule — twilight; dusk
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cupbearers — Plural form of cupbearer.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curry puff — (in eastern cookery) a type of pie or pasty consisting of a pastry case containing curried meat and vegetables
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- depanneurs — Plural form of depanneur.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- disreputed — Simple past tense and past participle of disrepute.
- disruptant — That which disrupts.
- disrupters — Plural form of disrupter.
- disrupting — Present participle of disrupt.
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.