6-letter words containing p, u
- dunlap — William, 1766–1839, U.S. dramatist, theatrical producer, and historian.
- dunlop — John Boyd, 1840–1921, Scottish inventor of the pneumatic tire.
- duparc — Henri (ɑ̃ri), full name Marie Eugène Henri Fouques Duparc. 1848–1933, French composer of songs noted for their sad brooding quality
- dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
- duping — duplicate.
- dupion — a cocoon formed jointly by two silkworms.
- duplet — Chemistry. two electrons occupying the same orbital in an atom or molecule; two electrons working together, especially forming a nonpolar covalent bond between atoms.
- duplex — duplex apartment.
- dupont — Eleuthère Irénée [e-lœ-ter ee-rey-ney] /ɛ lœˈtɛr i reɪˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1771–1834, U.S. industrialist, born in France.
- dupped — to open.
- dupper — Alternative form of dubber (a kind of bottle).
- dustup — a quarrel; argument; row.
- eat up — to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- eggcup — a small cup or bowl for serving a boiled egg.
- empusa — a goblin in Greek mythology
- end up — arrive somewhere
- epaule — The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
- eperdu — distracted
- epirus — a region of NW Greece, part of ancient Epirus ceded to Greece after independence in 1830
- épuisé — exhausted
- epulis — (medicine) A hard tumour developed from the gums.
- equipe — (esp in motor racing) team
- equips — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of equip.
- equipt — Equipment.
- erupts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of erupt.
- eulisp — 1985-present. A Lisp dialect intended to be a common European standard, with influences from Common LISP, Le LISP, Scheme and T. First-class functions, classes and continuations, both static scope and dynamic scope, modules, support for parallelism. The class system (TELOS) incorporates ideas from CLOS, ObjVLisp and Oaklisp. See also Feel. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- euphon — a glass harmonica
- eupnea — (medicine) Normal, relaxed breathing; healthy condition of inhalation and exhalation.
- europa — a Phoenician princess who had three children by Zeus in Crete, where he had taken her after assuming the guise of a white bull. Their offspring were Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Sarpedon
- europe — geography: European continent
- expugn — (obsolete) To take by storm; capture. (15th-17th c.).
- eye up — If someone eyes you up, they look at you in a way that shows they consider you attractive.
- eyecup — A piece of an optical device such as a microscope, camera, or pair of binoculars that is contoured to provide a comfortable rest against the user's eye.
- fa cup — Football Association competition
- faceup — with the face or the front or upper surface upward: Place the cards faceup on the table.
- fed up — simple past tense and past participle of feed.
- fit up — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- fix up — Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
- fix-up — repair; improvement: fix-ups that will make the house more salable.
- flumps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flump.
- fly-up — a formal ceremony at which a girl leaves her Brownie troop, receives a pair of embroidered wings for her uniform, and becomes a member of an intermediate Girl Scout troop.
- foldup — something, as a chair or bed, that can be folded up and stored away when not in use.
- frumps — Plural form of frump.
- frumpy — frumpish.
- fry up — If you fry up food, you fry it, especially in order to make a quick, casual meal.
- fuckup — a person who bungles or botches, especially a habitual bungler.
- fur up — kettle, pipe: form calcium deposits
- furphy — a false report; rumor.
- gallup — George Horace, 1901–84, U.S. statistician.
- gas up — Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.