8-letter words containing p, u, i, l
- kalumpit — a fruit tree of the genus Terminalia, with small yellow flowers, native to the Philippines
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- lapillus — a small stony particle ejected from a volcano.
- light up — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lilliput — an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 cm) tall, described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- 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)
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- liven up — make more lively
- 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.
- lupuline — of or relating to lupulin
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
- multiped — having many feet.
- multiple — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- nauplial — of or relating to nauplius larva
- 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.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- oil pump — An oil pump is a pump that sends lubricating oil under pressure to the bearings and other lubricated surfaces of an engine.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- palatium — a palace, especially the palace of an ancient Roman emperor.
- paludine — marshy
- paludism — malaria.
- paul iii — (Alessandro Farnese) 1468–1549, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1534–49.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- pelagius — died a.d. 590, pope 579–590.
- pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- piacular — expiatory; atoning; reparatory.
- pictural — a picture
- pill bug — any of various small terrestrial isopods, especially of the genera Armadillidium and Oniscus, which can roll themselves up into a spherical shape.
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- piquillo — a variety of sweet red pepper grown in the Ebro River Valley in N Spain
- pit bull — American Staffordshire terrier.
- placitum — a plea made in court on behalf of a person or group
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plainful — sad and mournful
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- platinum — Chemistry. a heavy, grayish-white, highly malleable and ductile metallic element, resistant to most chemicals, practically unoxidizable except in the presence of bases, and fusible only at extremely high temperatures: used for making chemical and scientific apparatus, as a catalyst in the oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid, and in jewelry. Symbol: Pt; atomic weight: 195.09; atomic number: 78; specific gravity: 21.5 at 20°C.