6-letter words containing o, p, u
- upboil — to boil up
- upbore — to bear up; raise aloft; sustain or support.
- upcoil — to make into a coil
- upcome — the outcome or result
- upflow — to flow upwards
- upfold — to fold up or together: Some morning-glories upfold their flowers by noon.
- upgrow — to become more adult
- uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
- upjohn — Richard, 1802–78, and his son, Richard Michell [mi-shel] /mɪˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1828–1903, U.S. architects, born in England.
- upload — to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a smaller to a larger computer.
- uplock — to lock, to lock up
- uplook — to look up
- upmost — uppermost.
- upprop — to support or prop up
- uproar — a state of violent and noisy disturbance, as of a multitude; turmoil.
- uproll — to roll up
- uproot — to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
- uprose — simple past tense of uprise.
- upshot — the final issue, the conclusion, or the result: The upshot of the disagreement was a new bylaw.
- upsoar — to soar upwards
- uptorn — past participle of uptear.
- uptoss — to throw or toss upwards
- uptown — to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
- upvote — such a favorable vote: One of my posts is getting lots of upvotes.
- uropod — an abdominal limb of an arthropod, especially one of those on either side of the telson, as in a lobster.
- utopia — an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
- vapour — a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
- workup — an undesirable deposit of ink on a surface being printed, caused by the forcing into type-high position of quads or other spacing material.
- yaupon — a holly shrub or small tree, Ilex vomitoria, of the southern U.S., having bitter leaves that are sometimes brewed as a tea.