7-letter words containing p, u, t
- pythium — a genus of parasitic oomycotes, most of which are plant parasites
- rap out — If you rap out an order or a question, you say it quickly and sharply.
- rapture — ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
- raupatu — the confiscation or seizure of land
- reerupt — to burst forth: Molten lava erupted from the top of the volcano. Synonyms: vent.
- repunit — any positive integer that consists entirely of the digit 1 repeated, for example, 11, 111, 1111
- reputed — reported or supposed to be such: the reputed author of a book.
- restump — to provide (a building) with new stumps
- root up — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rout up — to find or get by turning up or poking about
- ruptime — Unix Berkeley networking command to report the status of all hosts on the net. See also rwho. See ruptime(1N).
- rupture — the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
- shot up — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shut up — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- silt up — If a river or lake silts up or something silts it up, it becomes blocked with silt.
- sit-ups — abdominal exercise
- slipout — an instance of slipping out
- spatula — an implement with a broad, flat, usually flexible blade, used for blending foods or removing them from cooking utensils, mixing drugs, spreading plasters and paints, etc.
- spatule — a spatula
- spinout — a spinning slide or skid by a motor vehicle that is out of control
- spit up — to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.
- spouted — fitted with a spout: a spouted pitcher.
- spouter — to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- sprouts — newly grown shoots or buds
- spurter — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spurtle — a stick used to stir porridge.
- sputnik — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
- sputter — to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.
- spy out — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- stackup — stack (def 13).
- startup — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- stay up — not go to bed
- step up — effecting an increase.
- step-up — effecting an increase.
- stickup — a holdup; robbery.
- stipule — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- stirrup — a loop, ring, or other contrivance of metal, wood, leather, etc., suspended from the saddle of a horse to support the rider's foot.
- stop up — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stumped — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stumper — a person or thing that stumps.
- stupefy — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupent — astonished
- stupids — Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses.
- subpart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- subplot — a secondary or subordinate plot, as in a play, novel, or other literary work; underplot. Compare counterplot (def 2).
- subtype — a subordinate type.
- suit up — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sumpter — a packhorse or mule.
- sunspot — one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena.