7-letter words containing l, a, p, u
- 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.
- plaudit — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- plautus — Titus Maccius [tahy-tuh s mak-see-uh s] /ˈtaɪ təs ˈmæk si əs/ (Show IPA), c254–c184 b.c, Roman dramatist.
- play up — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playbus — a mobile playground
- playful — full of play or fun; sportive; frolicsome.
- 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.
- plugola — payment or favor given to people in media or motion pictures for favorable mention or display of a particular product or brand name.
- plumage — the entire feathery covering of a bird.
- plumate — resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.
- plumula — a down feather
- pluteal — relating to a pluteus
- pluvial — of or relating to rain, especially much rain; rainy.
- pluvian — a crocodile bird
- popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- poulard — a hen spayed to improve the flesh for use as food.
- poundal — the foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one foot per second per second on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: pdl.
- primula — primrose (def 1).
- puberal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pulaski — a double-edged hand tool having an ax blade on one side and a pickax or wide chisel on the opposite side, used especially in clearing land and removing tree stumps.
- pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- pulsant — pulsating; vibrant
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- punalua — a marriage between the sisters of one family and the brothers of another
- pursual — the act of pursuit
- sapulpa — a city in E central Oklahoma.
- sarapul — a city in the SE Udmurt Autonomous Republic, in the W Russian Federation in Asia, SE of Izhevsk, on the Kama River.
- scaleup — an increase in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaleup of an engineering design; a scaleup program of energy conservation.
- scapula — Anatomy. either of two flat, triangular bones, each forming the back part of a shoulder in humans; shoulder blade.
- scopula — a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.
- seal up — make water- or air-tight
- serpula — a member of a genus of marine annelid or tubeworm belonging to the Serpulid family, characterized by the serpentine calcareous tube it produces and inhabits
- slap-up — excellent; first-rate: a slap-up do.
- spatula — an implement with a broad, flat, usually flexible blade, used for blending foods or removing them from cooking utensils, mixing drugs, spreading plasters and paints, etc.
- spatule — a spatula
- specula — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
- spicula — a spicule.
- spirula — any cephalopod of the genus Spirula, having a flat, spiral shell that is partly inside and partly outside the posterior part of the body.
- spousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- suiplap — a drunkard
- sunlamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
- talk up — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- topmaul — a heavy hammer with a steel or wooden head, used in shipbuilding.
- unclamp — to undo the clamps of: to unclamp one's ski boots.
- unclasp — to undo the clasp or clasps of; unfasten.
- unpanel — to unsaddle
- unplait — to alter from a plaited state; unbraid, as hair.
- uplands — an area of high or relatively high ground
- uppsala — a city in SE Sweden.