8-letter words containing p, u, e, t
- set upon — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- sextuple — consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
- sextuply — to offer a rejoinder
- shtupped — to have sexual intercourse with.
- sleepout — a place, such as an outbuilding or porch, used for sleeping away from the main building
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- speakout — a firm or brave statement of one's beliefs
- spectrum — ZX Spectrum
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splutter — to talk rapidly and somewhat incoherently, as when confused, excited, or embarrassed: When pushed for an explanation, he always spluttered.
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- spurters — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- sputtery — tending to sputter
- stake up — to close up (or in) with a fence of stakes
- steam up — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steep-up — very steep or perpendicular
- step cut — a cut consisting of a rectangular girdle, often faceted, with two or more tiers of narrow facets running parallel to the girdle on both the crown and the pavilion: used especially in stones in which color is more important than brilliance.
- step out — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stoke up — to feed and tend (a fire, etc) with fuel
- store up — save, keep in reserve
- strumpet — a prostitute; harlot.
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- stupider — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- stuprate — to ravish or rape
- subdepot — a depot within a larger depot
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- superate — overcome; surmounted; surpassed
- superfit — extremely fit
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- superhot — extremely hot
- superjet — a jet aircraft, especially a large one, capable of supersonic flight.
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tense up — person: become anxious
- the hump — a fit of depression or sulking (esp in the phrase it gives me the hump)
- the lump — self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
- the push — dismissal, esp from employment
- thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- tour rep — A tour rep is the same as a holiday rep.
- trade up — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade-up — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- truetype — (text, standard) An outline font standard first developed by Apple Computer, and later embraced by Microsoft, as a competitor to Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript which is still more popular.
- trumpery — something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.