11-letter words containing u, p, r
- countertops — Plural form of countertop.
- countertype — an opposite type
- coupon rate — The coupon rate is the interest rate on a bond calculated on the number of coupons per year.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- craniopagus — the condition of Siamese twins joined at the head
- crap around — Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
- crapulosity — the quality of being crapulous or crapulent
- crapulously — In a crapulous manner.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- crepusculum — Crepuscule; twilight; dusk.
- crop duster — a pilot employed in crop-dusting from an airplane.
- 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.
- culture gap — a divide between two social groups that have different cultures
- 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
- custard cup — a heat-resistant porcelain or glass cup in which an individual custard is baked.
- 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.
- cut a caper — to skip or jump playfully
- cyano group — the univalent group CN; cyanogen.
- cyperaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant
- cypherpunks — Plural form of cypherpunk.
- cypripedium — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, having large flowers with an inflated pouchlike lip
- damp course — A damp course is a layer of waterproof material which is put into the bottom of the outside wall of a building to prevent moisture from rising.
- decrepitude — Decrepitude is the state of being very old and in poor condition.
- depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
- depauperate — poor; impoverished
- depauperize — to make (a person) poor
- depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
- deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
- diazo group — the bivalent group –N=N– united with one hydrocarbon group and another atom or group, as in benzenediazo hydroxide, C 6 H 5 N=NOH, or the bivalent group =N=N united with one hydrocarbon group, as in diazomethane, CH 2 =N=N.
- displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
- disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
- disruptants — Plural form of disruptant.
- disruptions — Plural form of disruption.
- disulphuric — pyrosulphuric
- do sb proud — If someone does you proud, they treat you very well, for example by welcoming you and giving you good food and entertainment.
- do up brown — to do completely or perfectly
- do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
- dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
- dot product — inner product (def 1).
- double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
- double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
- draw stumps — to close play, as by pulling out the stumps
- draw trumps — to play the trump suit until the opponents have none left