7-letter words containing p, o, u
- holdups — Plural form of holdup.
- hole up — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- hook up — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- hook-up — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- hookups — Plural form of hookup.
- hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- hotspur — Sir Henry ("Hotspur") 1364–1403, English military and rebel leader.
- impious — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
- ingroup — (systematics) In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
- jodhpur — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- join up — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
- jump on — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- jumpoff — (slang) A sexual partner who is more than a one-night stand but with whom one does not intend to form a long-term romantic relationship.
- kouprey — a wild ox, Bibos (Novibos) sauveli, of Laos and Cambodia, having a blackish-brown body with white markings on the back and feet: an endangered species.
- lagopus — (obsolete) The ptarmigan (which bird was so called because its feet resemble those of a hare).
- leprous — Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- lip out — (of a ball) to reach the edge of the hole and spin away without dropping in
- load up — charge, fill
- lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lock-up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lockups — Plural form of lockup.
- look up — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
- lookups — Plural form of lookup.
- loom up — rise ominously
- lop nur — series of salt lakes and marshes in Xinjiang Uygur, NW China: nuclear test site.
- love up — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- love-up — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- map out — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mock up — a contemptuous or derisive imitative action or speech; mockery or derision.
- mock-up — a model, often full-size, for study, testing, or teaching: a mock-up of an experimental aircraft.
- mockups — Plural form of mockup.
- move up — to pass from one place or position to another.
- mud pot — a hot spring filled with boiling mud. Compare paint pot (def 2).
- no jump — a jump that does not qualify in sports such as the long jump
- nonplus — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonuple — having nine beats to the measure: a nonuple rhythm.
- nosh-up — a large and satisfying meal
- occiput — the back part of the head or skull.
- octapus — Misspelling of octopus.
- octopus — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- octuple — eightfold; eight times as great.
- octuply — in an octuple or eightfold manner
- oedipus — a king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, and the father by Jocasta of Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.
- olympus — Mount, a mountain in NE Greece, on the boundary between Thessaly and Macedonia: mythical abode of the greater Grecian gods. 9730 feet (2966 meters).
- opaqued — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- opaques — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opaque.
- open up — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- ophiura — a sea creature, similar to a starfish, of the Ophiuridae family
- opossum — a prehensile-tailed marsupial, Didelphis virginiana, of the eastern U.S., the female having an abdominal pouch in which its young are carried: noted for the habit of feigning death when in danger.