8-letter words containing e, m, p, u
- jet pump — A jet pump is a pump that operates on the principle of a high-pressure fluid jet and the venturi effect (= which exerts suction).
- jump jet — a jet airplane capable of taking off and landing vertically or on an extremely short runway or flight deck.
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- mixed up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
- mixed-up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- mousepox — ectromelia (def 2).
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- multiped — having many feet.
- multiple — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- overjump — to jump too far over
- overpump — to pump too much so as to deplete
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- pendulum — a body so suspended from a fixed point as to move to and fro by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- penumbra — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- perfumed — Something such as fruit or wine that is perfumed has a sweet pleasant smell.
- perfumer — a person or thing that perfumes.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.
- perineum — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- petaluma — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- plectrum — a small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plumbery — a plumber's workshop.
- plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- plumelet — a small plume.
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- plumiped — a bird with feathered feet
- podetium — (in certain lichens) a stalk bearing an apothecium.
- prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
- premould — to mould in advance
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- presumed — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- promulge — to promulgate.
- prosumer — a person who both consumes and produces a particular commodity
- pudendum — the external genital organs, especially those of the female; vulva.
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- pumicite — a fine-grained pumice-like volcanic ash
- pummeled — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- pumpless — having no pump
- pumplike — resembling a pump
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- scrumple — to crumple or crush (something, esp a piece of paper) or (esp of a piece of paper) to become crumpled or crushed