7-letter words containing e, p, l, u
- heal up — When an injury heals up, it becomes completely healthy again.
- helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hole up — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- impulse — the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.: to act under a generous impulse; to strike out at someone from an angry impulse.
- lace up — anything that laces up, especially a boot with shoelaces that lace up from the vamp to the top of the boot.
- lace-up — anything that laces up, especially a boot with shoelaces that lace up from the vamp to the top of the boot.
- le-puys — a city in and the capital of Haute-Loire, in central France: cathedral.
- lead-up — something that provides an approach to or preparation for an event or situation.
- lepidus — Marcus Aemilius [ee-mil-ee-uh s] /iˈmɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 13 b.c, Roman politician: member of the second triumvirate.
- leprous — Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- lepsius — Karl Richard [kahrl rikh-ahrt] /kɑrl ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1810–84, German philologist and Egyptologist.
- line up — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- line-up — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- lineups — Plural form of lineup.
- live up — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- love up — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- love-up — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- lumpers — Plural form of lumper.
- lumpier — Comparative form of lumpy.
- lupines — Plural form of lupine.
- n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
- nonuple — having nine beats to the measure: a nonuple rhythm.
- octuple — eightfold; eight times as great.
- opulent — characterized by or exhibiting opulence: an opulent suite.
- opuscle — Obsolete form of opuscule.
- outleap — to leap ahead of or over.
- outyelp — to outdo in yelping
- p value — (statistics) The probability that the opposite of some hypothesis is true, based on some set of results; a way of expressing the significance of a statistical observation. The lower the P value, the more significant the result. For example, if the hypothesis was "This vaccine prevents flu" then the opposite hypothesis (the "null hypothesis") would be "This vaccine has no effect on flu". If the occurence of flu was measured in a sample of people taking the vaccine then one might say that the hypothesis was confirmed with a p value of 5%. That would mean there was a 5% chance of obtaining the same results or better from a similar sample of the whole population even if the vaccine had no effect.
- paenula — a long, circular cloak, sleeveless and often hooded, worn by the poorer classes in ancient Rome.
- pageful — the amount (of text, etc) that a page will hold
- palouse — a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- papulae — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- pauline — a female given name.
- pelorus — a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- pendule — a manoeuvre by which a climber on a rope from above swings in a pendulum-like series of movements to reach another line of ascent
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- piculet — any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
- pile up — an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.
- pile-up — an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.
- pileous — hairy or furry.
- pinnule — Zoology. a part or organ resembling a barb of a feather, a fin, or the like. a finlet.
- pipeful — a quantity sufficient to fill the bowl of a pipe: a pipeful of tobacco.
- plaguey — such as to plague, torment, or annoy; vexatious: a plaguy pile of debts.
- plateau — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- pleurae — Anatomy, Zoology. a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax.
- pleural — Anatomy. of or relating to the pleura.
- pleuro- — of or relating to the side
- pleuron — the lateral plate or plates of a thoracic segment of an insect.