6-letter words containing a, u, p
- jaipur — a state in NW India; formerly Rajputana and a group of small states. 132,078 sq. mi. (342,056 sq. km). Capital: Jaipur.
- jam up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
- jam-up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
- japura — a river flowing E from the Andes in SW Colombia through NW Brazil to the Amazon. 1750 miles (2820 km) long.
- jupati — A Brazilian palm, Raphia taedigera, whose long stalks are used in constructing buildings.
- kanpur — a city in S Uttar Pradesh, in N India, on the Ganges River.
- kapuas — a river in W Kalimantan, in central Borneo, flowing SW to the South China Sea. 710 miles (1142 km) long.
- kapuka — a New Zealand tree, Griselinia littoralis, of the dogwood family, having brown, hairy twigs and small, greenish flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- kaputt — (slang) alternative spelling of kaput.
- kipuka — (in Hawaii) a tract of land surrounded by recent lava flows.
- lap up — (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
- lapful — as much as the lap can hold.
- lapsus — a slip of the tongue.
- laputa — an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
- larrup — to beat or thrash.
- lashup — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.
- lay up — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- lay-up — Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.
- lupoma — any of the tubercles occurring in lupus vulgaris.
- makeup — facial cosmetics, as eye shadow or lipstick.
- man up — an adult male person, as distinguished from a boy or a woman.
- maputo — Formerly Portuguese East Africa. a republic in SE Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 297,731 sq. mi. (771,123 sq. km). Capital: Maputo.
- markup — Commerce. the amount added by a seller to the cost of a commodity to cover expenses and profit in fixing the selling price. the difference between the cost price and the selling price, computed as a percentage of either the selling price or the cost price. an increase in price, as of a commodity. the amount by which a price is increased.
- mashup — Music, Slang. a recording that combines vocal and instrumental tracks from two or more recordings.
- mokapu — a town on E Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- mudcap — to blast (a rock) with an explosive attached to it with a capping of clay.
- nagpur — a city in NE Maharashtra, in central India: former capital of the Central Provinces and Berar.
- opacus — (of a cloud) dense enough to obscure the sun or moon.
- opaque — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- pablum — (lowercase) trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap.
- pactum — a pact
- padauk — any of several trees belonging to the genus Pterocarpus, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia and Africa, having reddish striped or mottled wood used for paneling, furniture, etc.
- padouk — any of several trees belonging to the genus Pterocarpus, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia and Africa, having reddish striped or mottled wood used for paneling, furniture, etc.
- paduan — a city in NE Italy.
- paiute — a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
- pal up — to become friends (with)
- palpus — an appendage attached to an oral part and serving as an organ of sense in insects, crustaceans, etc.
- pan gu — P'an Ku.
- panful — the amount a pan can hold.
- pannus — Pathology. an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea. an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
- pantun — pantoum.
- panuco — a river in E central Mexico, flowing E to the Gulf of Mexico. About 315 miles (505 km) long.
- paotou — Baotou
- pappus — a downy, bristly, or other tuftlike appendage of the achene of certain plants, as the dandelion and the thistle.
- papuan — of or relating to New Guinea or to Papua New Guinea.
- papula — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- papule — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- parfum — perfume.
- parula — any of several American wood warblers of the genus Parula, especially P. americana (northern parula) having bluish plumage with a yellow throat and breast.
- parure — a matching set of jewels or ornaments.