8-letter words containing o, u, p
- decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
- dipnoous — having both lungs and gills for breathing
- docusoap — a television series that chronicles the purportedly real lives of an interconnected group of people, often in a melodramatic way.
- dope out — any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- doped up — If someone is doped up, they are in a state where they cannot think clearly because they are under the influence of drugs.
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- douzeper — a member of the douzepers
- downpour — a heavy, drenching rain.
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropouts — Plural form of dropout.
- dummkopf — a stupid person; dumbbell; blockhead.
- duopsony — the market condition that exists when there are only two buyers.
- dup loop — (messaging) /d[y]oop loop/ (also "dupe loop") [FidoNet] An infinite stream of duplicated, near-identical messages on a FidoNet echo, the only difference being unique or mangled identification information applied by a faulty or incorrectly configured system or network gateway, thus rendering dup killers ineffective. If such a duplicate message eventually reaches a system through which it has already passed (with the original identification information), all systems passed on the way back to that system are said to be involved in a dup loop.
- dust-mop — to clean with a dust mop.
- eelpouts — Plural form of eelpout.
- emporium — A large retail store selling a wide variety of goods.
- eohippus — Extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum.
- epigeous — epigeal
- epilogue — A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.
- epulotic — a substance that promotes the formation of scar tissue
- eruption — An act or instance of erupting.
- espousal — An act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life.
- espoused — Adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
- espouser — One who espouses; one who embraces or adopts the cause of another.
- espouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of espouse.
- espumoso — sparkling wine
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
- euphonic — Characterized by euphony; harmonious.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- euphoric — Characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness.
- euphotic — Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- european — geography
- europium — The chemical element of atomic number 63, a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series. Europium oxide is used with yttrium oxide as a red phosphor in color television screens.
- eutrophy — (medicine) healthy nutrition.
- eutropic — of, relating to or characterized by eutropy
- exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
- expounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expound.
- flip out — to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
- flip-out — to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
- followup — the act of following.
- footpump — a pump that is operated by foot
- foul tip — a pitched ball that glances off the bat into foul territory, usually near the catcher, ruled a strike if the catcher catches it before it hits the ground, otherwise ruled an ordinary foul ball.
- fourplay — Quad play.
- fourplex — quadplex.
- front up — to pay (money) at the beginning of a business arrangement
- fullstop — Alt form full stop.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups