8-letter words containing p, u, t
- chutzpah — If you say that someone has chutzpah, you mean that you admire the fact that they are not afraid or embarrassed to do or say things that shock, surprise, or annoy other people.
- clip-out — intended to be clipped out, as from a newspaper: a clip-out coupon.
- compunct — (obsolete) Affected with compunction; remorseful.
- computed — Calculate or reckon (a figure or amount).
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compute.
- computor — (obsolete) A person who calculates or computes.
- consumpt — expenditure on goods and services for personal use
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- corrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrupt.
- count up — add, total
- coupette — a small coupe for serving dessert.
- couplets — Plural form of couplet.
- cpu time — processor time
- crap out — to make a losing throw in craps
- crepitus — a crackling chest sound heard in pneumonia and other lung diseases
- crop out — (of a formation of rock strata) to appear or be exposed at the surface of the ground; outcrop
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- culprits — Plural form of culprit.
- cup-tied — (of a team) unable to play another fixture because of involvement in a cup tie
- cupidity — Cupidity is a greedy desire for money and possessions.
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- cut plug — compressed chewing tobacco in a portion-sized cake.
- cut-pile — having a pile with yarns that are cut instead of looped: a cut-pile carpet.
- cutpurse — a thief who stole purses by cutting them from the belts to which they were attached
- decuplet — (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- deputies — Plural form of deputy.
- deputing — Present participle of depute.
- deputise — to appoint as deputy.
- deputize — If you deputize for someone, you do something on their behalf, for example attend a meeting.
- disputed — to engage in argument or debate.
- disputer — One who disputes.
- disputes — Plural form of dispute.
- disrupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disrupt.
- dope out — any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropouts — Plural form of dropout.
- drupelet — a little drupe, as one of the individual pericarps composing the blackberry.
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- dumpcart — a cart with a body that can be tilted or a bottom that can be opened downward to discharge the contents.
- dumpsite — dump (def 17).
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- dupattas — Plural form of dupatta.
- dust-mop — to clean with a dust mop.
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.