10-letter words containing a, s, u, p
- japanesque — having a Japanese style.
- jaspideous — Jaspidean; made of jasper.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- jump spark — spark1 (def 2).
- jump-start — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- jumpstarts — Plural form of jumpstart.
- juxtaposed — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- juxtaposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of juxtapose.
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- maupassant — (Henri René Albert) Guy de [ahn-ree ruh-ney al-ber gee duh] /ɑ̃ˈri rəˈneɪ alˈbɛr gi də/ (Show IPA), 1850–93, French short-story writer and novelist.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- musophobia — Fear of mice.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- neurospora — a genus of fast-growing orange-red fungus characterized by markings on the spores resembling axons, used widely in genetic and biochemical research
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- opaqueness — The characteristic of being opaque.
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- outpassion — to surpass in passion
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.