8-letter words containing a, u, r, p
- durgapur — a city in S West Bengal State, NE India.
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- euphrasy — eyebright
- european — geography
- flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flare-up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- grass up — to inform on (someone), esp to the police
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- harrumph — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- jabalpur — a city in central Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- jajapura — Jayapura.
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- jayapura — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
- lyallpur — a city in NE Pakistan.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- marry up — to join
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- nenuphar — A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outcaper — to exceed in capering
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- paraguay — a republic in central South America between Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina. 157,047 sq. mi. (406,750 sq. km). Capital: Asunción.
- paramour — an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
- 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.