8-letter words containing p, r, u, s
- -carpous — (in botany) indicating a certain kind or number of fruit
- -phorous — bearing, producing
- -pterous — indicating a specified number or type of wings
- -sporous — (in botany) having a specified type or number of spores
- -tropous — indicating a turning away
- acarpous — (of plants) producing no fruit
- aplustre — the ornamental stern on an ancient Greek or Roman ship
- apsyrtus — a son of Aeëtes, killed by his sister Medea, who, while fleeing with Jason, threw pieces of her brother's body into the sea so that her father, in pursuing her, might be delayed while picking them up.
- apterous — (of insects) without wings, as silverfish and springtails
- apurpose — (dialect) on purpose; deliberately.
- aruspicy — haruspicy.
- asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
- atropous — growing straight, without inversion
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- brush up — If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it.
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- capsular — relating to or resembling a capsule
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- chirrups — Plural form of chirrup.
- cockspur — a spur on the leg of a cock
- corrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrupt.
- couperus — Louis [loo-ee] /luˈi/ (Show IPA), 1863–1923, Dutch novelist.
- couplers — Plural form of coupler.
- cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- cross up — to confuse or disorder
- cross-up — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- croupous — (medicine) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cruppers — Plural form of crupper.
- culprits — Plural form of culprit.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
- cuspidor — spittoon
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- dispurse — Obsolete form of disburse.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- dress up — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress-up — being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season.
- dropouts — Plural form of dropout.
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- epicures — Plural form of epicure.
- epicurus — An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement commonly known as Epicureanism.
- espouser — One who espouses; one who embraces or adopts the cause of another.
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