11-letter words containing u, p, r
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- drop rudder — a rudder that can be lowered beneath the level of the bottom of a boat.
- drug pusher — someone who encourages others to take illegal drugs and who makes money supplying illegal drugs
- drug report — (humour) A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
- dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
- due process — established course of legal proceedings
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- ear trumpet — a trumpet-shaped device held to the ear for collecting and intensifying sounds and once commonly used as an aid to hearing.
- edp auditor — (job) A person who analyses system functions and operations to determine adequate security and controls. An EDP analyst evaluates systems and operational procedures and reports findings to senior management. He writes ad hoc report programs using 4GLs and specialised audit software.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- emparlaunce — an act of parleying or conferring
- encapturing — Present participle of encapture.
- end product — result of a process
- enrapturing — Present participle of enrapture.
- ensepulcher — (transitive) To lay in a sepulcher; to entomb.
- ensepulchre — to place into a sepulchre
- epigastrium — The part of the upper abdomen immediately over the stomach.
- eriophorous — relating to cotton grass
- eureka step — In program transformation, a transformation which is not obvious or easy to define as an algorithm.
- eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- europeanize — to make European in culture, dress, etc
- eurosceptic — Alternative form of Eurosceptic.
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
- exculpatory — Excusing or clearing of any wrongdoing.
- expenditure — The action of spending funds.
- export duty — a government tax paid on goods exported from a country
- expurgating — Present participle of expurgate.
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- expurgatory — Serving to expurgate.
- fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
- filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- fixer-upper — a person who is handy at making repairs.
- fluorophore — (biochemistry) A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.
- fluoroscope — a tube or box fitted with a screen coated with a fluorescent substance, used for viewing objects, especially deep body structures, by means of x-ray or other radiation.
- fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
- focus group — a representative group of people questioned together about their opinions on political issues, consumer products, etc.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- funny paper — funny1 (def 7b).
- gemmiparous — producing or reproducing by buds or gemmae.
- glamourpuss — a glamorous person, esp a woman