8-letter words containing a, t, p, u
- dupattas — Plural form of dupatta.
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- dustpans — Plural form of dustpan.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- eaten up — food: finished
- epaulets — Plural form of epaulet.
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- match up — pair
- match-up — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- occupate — (obsolete) To occupy.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- out-pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaced — Simple past tense and past participle of outpace.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- paraquat — a toxic herbicide, C 1 2 H 1 4 N 2 ⋅2CH 3 SO 4 , applied to food and flower crops and to highway borders as a defoliant and weed-killer.
- paraquet — parakeet.
- paroquet — parakeet.
- pass out — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- past due — payment: overdue, late
- paste-up — mechanical (def 14).
- pastural — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pasturer — a person who tends pasturing livestock
- patagium — a wing membrane, as of a bat.
- patch up — an act or instance of patching or repair.
- patch-up — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- patinous — patinated.
- patulent — patulous