8-letter words containing p, u, i, l
- pulpmill — a mill making pulp for paper
- pulsific — causing the pulse to increase
- pulvilio — a perfumed powder
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- pumplike — resembling a pump
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- pupillar — of or relating to a pupil or a legal ward
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- puruloid — resembling pus.
- pusslike — resembling a puss
- puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- simpulum — an ancient dipper having the rim of the bowl at right angles to the handle.
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- slip out — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- solpugid — sun spider.
- souplike — resembling or characteristic of soup
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- splenius — a broad muscle on each side of the back of the neck and the upper part of the thoracic region, the action of which draws the head backward and assists in turning it to one side.
- split up — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- split-up — the act of splitting.
- spoilful — plundering
- stipular — of or like a stipule or stipules
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stumpily — in a stumpy manner
- stupidly — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- 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
- sump oil — the waste oil from engines
- superlie — to lie above
- supinely — lying on the back, face or front upward.
- supplial — the act or an instance of supplying
- supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.