8-letter words containing p, r, u, s
- euphrasy — eyebright
- exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- furphies — Plural form of furphy.
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- grass up — to inform on (someone), esp to the police
- gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
- groupers — Plural form of grouper.
- 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
- grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
- grumpish — Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy.
- gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
- guruship — The status of a guru.
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- hesperus — an evening star, especially Venus.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
- imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- junipers — Plural form of juniper.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- misproud — unreasonably proud.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- outcrops — Plural form of outcrop.
- outports — Plural form of outport.
- outpours — Plural form of outpour.
- outpress — to press out
- outsport — to sport in excess of
- outstrip — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- parcours — parcourse.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- pastural — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pasturer — a person who tends pasturing livestock
- peiraeus — a seaport in SE Greece: the port of Athens.
- perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- 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