8-letter words containing p, i, u, s
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- furphies — Plural form of furphy.
- glumpish — glum
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- groupist — a follower of a group
- grumpish — Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy.
- gunships — Plural form of gunship.
- guruship — The status of a guru.
- imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impound.
- impulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of impulse.
- impulses — Plural form of impulse.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- insculpt — engraved
- ipsambul — Abu Simbel.
- jumpsuit — a one-piece suit worn by parachutists for jumping.
- junipers — Plural form of juniper.
- kingcups — Plural form of kingcup.
- lapillus — a small stony particle ejected from a volcano.
- liposuck — to subject to liposuction
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- misproud — unreasonably proud.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- nauplius — (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.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nutpicks — Plural form of nutpick.
- occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
- opiumism — the addictive use of opium as a stimulant or intoxicant.
- opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
- outstrip — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- paludism — malaria.
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- patinous — patinated.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- péquiste — in Canada, member or supporter of the Parti Québécois
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.