10-letter words containing u, p, t, e
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- 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.
- couplement — the action of coupling or the state of being coupled
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cupidities — Plural form of cupidity.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
- cutesy pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- 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.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- deputising — to appoint as deputy.
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- dispiteous — malicious; cruel; pitiless.
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disreputed — Simple past tense and past participle of disrepute.
- disrupters — Plural form of disrupter.
- disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- disrupture — interruption; disruption.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- dunderpate — a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
- duple time — characterized by two beats to the measure.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- eave spout — waterspout (def 1).
- emplastrum — a medicated plaster
- encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
- encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- enraptured — Simple past tense and past participle of enrapture.