6-letter words containing p, u
- gawpus — a clumsy or silly person
- gazump — to cheat (a house buyer) by raising the price, at the time a contract is to be signed, over the amount originally agreed upon.
- gee up — an exclamation, as to a horse or draught animal, to encourage it to turn to the right, go on, or go faster
- gen up — to brief (someone) or study (something) in detail; make or become fully conversant with
- gepurs — An early system on the IBM 701.
- gesuip — (South Africa, slang) drunk.
- get up — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- get-up — costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.
- getups — Plural form of getup.
- glumps — a state of sulking
- glumpy — sullen
- go cup — a plastic cup given to a customer wishing to consume an alcoholic beverage off the premises.
- gopura — A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.
- groupe — Obsolete spelling of group.
- groups — Plural form of group.
- grumph — to grunt
- grumps — Plural form of grump.
- grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- guelph — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- guimpe — a chemisette or yoke of lace, embroidery, or other material, worn with a dress cut low at the neck.
- gulped — to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
- gulper — A deep-sea eel with very large jaws that open to give an enormous gape and with eyes near the tip of the snout.
- gum up — any of various viscid, amorphous exudations from plants, hardening on exposure to air and soluble in or forming a viscid mass with water.
- gunzip — (tool, compression) The decompression utility corresponding to gzip. In operating systems with links, gunzip is just a link to gzip and its function can be invoked by passing a "-d" flag to gzip.
- guppie — Alternative form of guppy.
- gypsum — a very common mineral, hydrated calcium sulfate, CaSO 4 ⋅2H 2 O, occurring in crystals and in masses, soft enough to be scratched by the fingernail: used to make plaster of Paris, as an ornamental material, as a fertilizer, etc.
- ham up — an actor or performer who overacts.
- hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
- het up — indignant; irate; upset: She was really het up about the new city tax.
- hiccup — 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.
- hickup — Alternative spelling of hiccup.
- hippus — spasmodic contraction of the pupil of the eye.
- hit up — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- holdup — a forcible stopping and robbing of a person.
- hookup — an act or instance of hooking up.
- hop up — any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
- hot up — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- hp-sux — (abuse, operating system) /H-P suhks/ An unflattering hackerism for HP-UX which features some truly unique bogosities in the file system internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems). HP-UX is often referred to as "hockey-pux" inside HP, and one respondent claims that the proper pronunciation is /H-P ukkkhhhh/ as though one were about to spit. Another such alternate spelling and pronunciation is "H-PUX" /H-puhks/. Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym. Compare AIDX, buglix, Telerat, Open DeathTrap, ScumOS, sun-stools.
- hubcap — a removable cover for the center area of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle.
- huddup — a word used to encourage a horse to hurry
- huipil — a richly embroidered cotton blouse worn by women in Mexico and Central America, often very wide and low-cut.
- humped — having a hump.
- humpen — a round drinking glass formerly made in Germany
- humper — 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.
- humpie — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- humpty — a low padded seat; pouffe
- huppah — a canopy under which the Jewish marriage ceremony is performed.
- hurple — (Scotland) An impediment similar to a limp.
- hutzpa — unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
- hypnum — any of various plants of the genus Hypnum, the largest genus of moss