7-letter words containing p, u, i
- giddyup — (directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster! (Derived from 'Get Ye Up' or 'Git Thee Up').
- giltcup — a buttercup
- give up — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- give-up — something conceded or relinquished; concession: Labor has balked at any more give-ups in the contract talks.
- gropius — Walter [wawl-ter;; German vahl-tuh r] /ˈwɔl tər;; German ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, German architect, in the U.S. from 1937.
- groupie — a young person, especially a teenage girl, who is an ardent admirer of rock musicians and may follow them on tour.
- guipure — any of various laces, often heavy, made of linen, silk, etc., with the pattern connected by brides rather than by a net ground.
- gulping — Present participle of gulp.
- gunship — a helicopter or fixed-wing airplane armed with rapid-fire guns or cannons and used to provide close air support for troops in combat.
- guppies — Plural form of guppy.
- hiccups — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hiccupy — having hiccups
- high up — in a high place
- high-up — holding a high position or rank.
- hike up — raise or lift quickly
- humpies — any crude Aborigine hut or shelter, especially a shanty built at the edge of a town.
- humping — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- iapetus — Classical Mythology. a Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea.
- illampu — a peak of Mount Sorata.
- impetus — a moving force; impulse; stimulus: The grant for building the opera house gave impetus to the city's cultural life.
- impious — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
- impugns — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impulse — the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.: to act under a generous impulse; to strike out at someone from an angry impulse.
- impured — Simple past tense and past participle of impure.
- imputed — estimated to have a certain cash value, although no money has been received or credited.
- imputer — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- imputes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impute.
- ingroup — (systematics) In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
- insculp — to carve in or on something; engrave.
- inupiaq — a member of a group of Eskimos inhabiting northern Alaska along the Bering, Chukchi, and Arctic coasts, and some distance inland.
- inupiat — a member of an Eskimo people of N Alaska
- iphitus — a son of Eurytus, thrown to his death off the walls of Tiryns by Hercules.
- ipiutak — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Eskimo culture of Alaska lasting from a.d. 100 to 600.
- join up — to bring in contact, connect, or bring or put together: to join hands; to join pages with a staple.
- jump in — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- jumpier — Comparative form of jumpy.
- jumpily — Nervously, or restlessly.
- jumping — (colloquial) excellent, very fun.
- juniper — any evergreen, coniferous shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus, especially J. communis, having cones that resemble dark-blue or blackish berries used in flavoring gin and in medicine as a diuretic.
- jupiter — Also called Jove. the supreme deity of the ancient Romans: the god of the heavens and of weather. Compare Zeus.
- kick up — Also called kip-up [kip-uhp] /ˈkɪpˌʌp/ (Show IPA), kick-up. an acrobatic movement in which a person moves from a position lying on the back to a standing position with a vigorous swing of both legs coordinated with a launching push of the arms.
- kick-up — a violent disturbance or argument.
- kiepura — Jan (Wiktor) [yahn vik-tawr] /yɑn ˈvɪk tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904?–66, Polish tenor.
- kingcup — any of various common buttercups, as Ranunculus bulbosus, having bright-yellow flowers.
- kiphuth — Robert J(ohn) H(erman) ("Bob") 1890–1967, U.S. swimming coach.
- kipunji — an arboreal Old World monkey found in E Africa
- laid up — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- lampuki — a large marine fish, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis
- lepidus — Marcus Aemilius [ee-mil-ee-uh s] /iˈmɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 13 b.c, Roman politician: member of the second triumvirate.