7-letter words containing l, a, p, u
- lead-up — something that provides an approach to or preparation for an event or situation.
- lipuria — the presence of fat in the urine
- load up — charge, fill
- luapula — a river in S central Africa, flowing E and N along the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Lake Mweru. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- lupanar — a brothel; whorehouse.
- mudflap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- nail up — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- naipaul — V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) born 1932, English novelist and nonfiction writer, born in Trinidad.
- nampula — a city in E Mozambique.
- nauplii — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nuptial — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nuptual — Misspelling of nuptial.
- outleap — to leap ahead of or over.
- outplan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- outplay — to play better than.
- 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.
- pabular — relating to pabulum
- pabulum — something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- 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
- pailful — a quantity sufficient to fill a pail: a pailful of water.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- pallium — a large, rectangular mantle worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome.
- palmful — an amount that can be held in the palm of a hand
- palouse — a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- paludal — of or relating to marshes.
- papulae — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- papular — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- parlour — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parlous — perilous; dangerous.
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- parulis — gumboil.
- pascual — of or relating to pasture
- pasqual — ["Pasqual: A Proposed Generalization of Pascal", R.D. Tennent, TR75-32, Queen's U, Canada, 1975].
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- paul ii — (Pietro Barbo) 1417–71, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1464–71.
- paul iv — (Gian Pietro Caraffa) 1476–1559, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1555–59.
- paul vi — (Giovanni Batista Montini) 1897–1978, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1963–78.
- pauline — a female given name.
- pauling — Linus Carl [lahy-nuh s] /ˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), 1901–94, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- phallus — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pilular — of, relating to, or resembling pills.
- pinnula — a pinnule.
- plagium — the crime of kidnapping a child
- plaguey — such as to plague, torment, or annoy; vexatious: a plaguy pile of debts.
- planula — the ciliate, free-swimming larva of a coelenterate.