7-letter words containing a, u, p
- pair up — find a match for sb or sth
- pakokku — a city in central Burma.
- pallium — a large, rectangular mantle worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome.
- palmful — an amount that can be held in the palm of a hand
- palouse — a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- paludal — of or relating to marshes.
- pan out — a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
- pandour — History/Historical. a member of a local militia in Croatia, formed as a regiment in the Austrian army in the 18th century and noted for its ruthlessness and cruelty.
- pandura — a Graeco-Roman stringed instrument, similar to a lute
- pandure — bandore.
- pangfou — Bengbu.
- panicum — any of the grasses in the genus Panicum, including panic grass
- pantoum — a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
- panurge — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- papadum — an Indian flatbread made of lentil flour, often topped with chutney or various dips or salsas.
- pappous — having or forming a pappus.
- papulae — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- papular — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- papyrus — a tall, aquatic plant, Cyperus papyrus, of the sedge family, native to the Nile valley: the Egyptian subspecies, C. papyrus hadidii, thought to be common in ancient times, now occurs only in several sites.
- parakou — a city in E central Benin.
- paramus — a city in NE New Jersey.
- parkour — the sport of moving along a route, typically in a city, trying to get around or through various obstacles in the quickest and most efficient manner possible, as by jumping, climbing, or running: his amazing parkour skills.
- parlour — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parlous — perilous; dangerous.
- parquet — a floor composed of short strips or blocks of wood forming a pattern, sometimes with inlays of other woods or other materials.
- parture — departure
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- parulis — gumboil.
- parvenu — a person who has recently or suddenly acquired wealth, importance, position, or the like, but has not yet developed the conventionally appropriate manners, dress, surroundings, etc.
- pascual — of or relating to pasture
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- pasqual — ["Pasqual: A Proposed Generalization of Pascal", R.D. Tennent, TR75-32, Queen's U, Canada, 1975].
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- pass up — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
- paul ii — (Pietro Barbo) 1417–71, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1464–71.
- paul iv — (Gian Pietro Caraffa) 1476–1559, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555–59.
- paul vi — (Giovanni Batista Montini) 1897–1978, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1963–78.
- pauline — a female given name.
- pauling — Linus Carl [lahy-nuh s] /ˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), 1901–94, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- paviour — a person that paves; paver.
- paxiuba — a tropical South American palm tree, Iriartea exorrhiza
- pay cut — a decrease in pay or salary
- pay out — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.