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11-letter words containing a, p, u

  • 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.
  • cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
  • 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
  • cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • 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.
  • datum plane — the horizontal plane from which heights and depths are calculated
  • decapsulate — to remove a capsule from (a part or organ, esp the kidney)
  • deduplicate — to remove (duplicated material) from a system
  • demand-pull — designating or having to do with a form of inflation in which prices are driven up by an excess demand for goods and services, relative to their supply
  • dental pulp — pulp (def 4).
  • depasturing — Present participle of depasture.
  • depauperate — poor; impoverished
  • depauperize — to make (a person) poor
  • deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
  • depopulated — (of a place) reduced in population
  • depopulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depopulate.
  • depopulator — a thing that causes a decrease in population
  • depth gauge — a device attached to a drill bit to prevent the hole from exceeding a predetermined depth
  • deputations — Plural form of deputation.
  • deputy head — a vice-principal
  • deuteranope — a person suffering from deuteranopia
  • diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
  • 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.
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • disculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of disculpate.
  • dispatchful — of or relating to dispatch, particularly in terms of haste
  • displeasure — dissatisfaction, disapproval, or annoyance.
  • displuviate — (of the atrium of an ancient Roman house) having roofs sloping downward and outward from a central opening.
  • disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.
  • disputative — Tending to dispute.
  • disruptable — Capable of being disrupted.
  • disruptants — Plural form of disruptant.
  • donut peach — fruit
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • 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.
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • draw stumps — to close play, as by pulling out the stumps
  • draw trumps — to play the trump suit until the opponents have none left
  • 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.
  • duck plague — an acute, highly fatal disease of ducks caused by a herpesvirus
  • dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
  • duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
  • duplicating — Present participle of duplicate.
  • duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
  • duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
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