8-letter words containing e, u, p, t
- outprize — to prize more highly than or beyond the proper value of
- outsleep — to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- outspell — to surpass at spelling
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
- outspoke — Simple past form of outspeak.
- outsweep — an outward movement of arms in swimming breaststroke
- outswept — curving outwards
- pace out — If you pace out or pace off a distance, you measure it by walking from one end of it to the other.
- page out — (storage, architecture) What a paging system does when it copies part of a task's working memory from RAM to swap space on disk.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- paraquet — parakeet.
- paroquet — parakeet.
- past due — payment: overdue, late
- paste-up — mechanical (def 14).
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pasturer — a person who tends pasturing livestock
- patulent — patulous
- paulette — a female given name: derived from Paul.
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- peculate — to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
- pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
- penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.
- péquiste — in Canada, member or supporter of the Parti Québécois
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- petalous — having petals.
- petaluma — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- petanque — a form of lawn bowling originating in France, usually played on rough ground using steel balls.
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.
- petulant — sulky or irritable
- petuntse — a fusible feldspathic mineral used in hard-paste porcelain; china stone
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- pine nut — Also, pignoli. the seed of any of several pine trees, as the piñon, eaten roasted or salted or used in making candy, pastry, etc., after removing the hard seed coat.
- plantule — an embryonic plant in the act of germination
- plate up — to put food on a plate, ready for serving
- plateaux — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plateful — the amount that a plate will hold.
- plaudite — a request for applause following a show or production
- plectrum — a small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- pleuston — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- plumbate — a compound formed from lead oxide
- plumbite — a substance containing lead oxide
- plumelet — a small plume.