6-letter words containing p, u, t
- trumps — a trumpet.
- tumphy — a fool
- tuneup — adjustments made to improve efficiency
- tupelo — any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
- tupper — Sir Charles, 1821–1915, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1896.
- turnip — the thick, fleshy, edible root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa rapifera or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga.
- turnup — something that is turned up or that turns up.
- turpin — Ben, 1874–1940, U.S. silent-film comedian.
- two-up — a game in which two players bet that two tossed coins will land either with matching or nonmatching sides facing up.
- typhus — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- ujpest — a suburb of Budapest, in N Hungary.
- unkept — simple past tense and past participle of keep.
- unstep — to lift from its step, as a mast.
- unstop — to remove the stopper from: to unstop a bottle.
- unwept — not wept for; unmourned: an unwept loss.
- up top — in the head or mind
- upbeat — an unaccented beat, especially immediately preceding a downbeat.
- upcast — an act of casting upward.
- updart — to dart upwards
- update — to bring (a book, figures, or the like) up to date as by adding new information or making corrections: to update a science textbook.
- upknit — to reconcile or bring to agreement
- uplift — to lift up; raise; elevate.
- upmost — uppermost.
- uppity — affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
- uprate — to raise in rate, power, size, classification, etc.; upgrade: to uprate a rocket engine.
- uprest — an uprising
- uproot — to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
- upshot — the final issue, the conclusion, or the result: The upshot of the disagreement was a new bylaw.
- upstay — to support or sustain
- upstep — the phenomenon of one tone becoming higher than another in certain words of tonal languages
- upstir — a commotion or disturbance
- uptake — apprehension; understanding or comprehension; mental grasp: quick on the uptake.
- uptalk — a rise in pitch at the end usually of a declarative sentence, especially if habitual: often represented in writing by a question mark as in Hi, I'm here to read the meter?
- uptear — to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- uptick — a rise or improvement in business activity, in mood, etc.
- uptilt — to tilt up.
- uptime — the time during which a machine or piece of equipment, as a computer, is operating or can be operated.
- uptorn — past participle of uptear.
- uptoss — to throw or toss upwards
- uptown — to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
- upturn — to turn up or over: The farmer upturned clumps of sod with his spade.
- upvote — such a favorable vote: One of my posts is getting lots of upvotes.
- upwaft — to waft upwards
- utopia — an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.