10-Letter Words Containing U

Polygonum

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

POLYSEME a word with more than one meaning

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

Industrial-revolution creations

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

The quality of being porous.

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

Portulaca

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Like new work from writer, now late

English word

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Postulant

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Assumes position tardily in America

Mathematic suppositions

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Potassium

Pothunter

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

Poultice

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Pourboire

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

Pourpoint

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Poussette

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Poxvirus

Practicum

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

CALCULI calculus

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Precious

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Counteracting in advance

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Eliminating beforehand

Like a smart child

Mature beyond years

Developing earlier than normal

COMPUTE to calculate

Forerunners

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Precut

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefigure

Prefocus

Prefocus

Prejudger

Prejudge

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Jury selection issues

Prelature

Prelusion

Shells that explode too soon

MEASURE to compare with a standard

Prenumber

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

Childhood stage

Prepunch

Prepunch

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

To require beforehand.

Full of presages; ominous.

Presidium

Lobbyist's activity

Exerting compelling influence on.

Putting the squeeze on

Attempt to coerce (into doing something)

Coerce journalists to rebel, supporting United

Prepare, as an aircraft cabin

Prepare, as a bottle launcher

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

By presumption.

Take for granted

With supper prepared, sit and consider ...

Assume

SURGERY the treatment of medical problems by operation

Preunite

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

PRIDEFUL full of pride

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

""Pl. principia (- - ) A principle, especially a basic one.""

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Reproduces new ways to get things done

Courses of action

Parliamentary methods.

Proconsul

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

One paid, possibly responsive to treatment on offer (wordplay)

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Colossal reminder soldier was in debt

Profoundly amazing

Incredible

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Profusion

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

One who speaks for another.

Prologue

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Prolusion

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

Promulge

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Spelling bee official

Articulates

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Propagule

Of good omen

Promising support with Italian debts on paper

Promising support, promises to support it

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Prorogue

Prosateur

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

""Pl. prosciutti (-t ) or prosciuttos An aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served without cooking.""

Ham in cooking pot? Scour it!

Raw cured Italian ham

Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

Does D. A. duty

Somehow secures top wages

Practises and secures top spin

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Rich American follows Shakespearean

Affluent Italian duke meets American

In the CHIPs

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

""The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc. Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc.""

Early ancestor (wordplay)

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

""Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. as, protrusive motion.""

Proustite

Provirus

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Prurience

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Pruritus

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Pseudopod

Pterosaur

Pterygium

Very minutely downy.

Teenage years

PUBLIC people as a whole

PUBLICISE

Publicise

Publicist

PUBLICIZE

Publicize

""The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. as, the publicness of a sale.""

Men of the book world.

Penguin and others

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Puckery

Puerilism

Birth

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Puissance

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullulate

Pulmonate

Heartbeats

Beats.

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

PULVERISE

Pulverise

Comminuted

""One who, or that which, pulverizes.""

Pulverize

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

Punchball

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Punctilio

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

Puncture

Punditry

Pungency