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6-letter words containing p, u

  • hypnus — Hypnos
  • ice-up — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
  • impugn — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
  • impune — Unpunished.
  • impure — not pure; mixed with extraneous matter, especially of an inferior or contaminating nature: impure water and air.
  • impute — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
  • in pup — (of a bitch) pregnant
  • ink up — to apply ink to (a printing machine) in preparing it for operation
  • inpour — (transitive, archaic) To pour in.
  • inputs — Plural form of input.
  • inupik — Inuit.
  • irrupt — to break or burst in suddenly.
  • jaipur — a state in NW India; formerly Rajputana and a group of small states. 132,078 sq. mi. (342,056 sq. km). Capital: Jaipur.
  • jam up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
  • jam-up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
  • japura — a river flowing E from the Andes in SW Colombia through NW Brazil to the Amazon. 1750 miles (2820 km) long.
  • juleps — Plural form of julep.
  • jumped — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
  • jumper — an act or instance of jumping; leap.
  • jumpup — (slang, Australia) A road path or track ascending or descending a hill or range.
  • jupati — A Brazilian palm, Raphia taedigera, whose long stalks are used in constructing buildings.
  • kanpur — a city in S Uttar Pradesh, in N India, on the Ganges River.
  • kapuas — a river in W Kalimantan, in central Borneo, flowing SW to the South China Sea. 710 miles (1142 km) long.
  • kapuka — a New Zealand tree, Griselinia littoralis, of the dogwood family, having brown, hairy twigs and small, greenish flowers, grown as an ornamental.
  • kaputt — (slang) alternative spelling of kaput.
  • key up — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
  • kickup — a violent disturbance or argument.
  • kipuka — (in Hawaii) a tract of land surrounded by recent lava flows.
  • kuiper — Gerard Peter, 1905–73, U.S. astronomer, born in the Netherlands.
  • kuopio — a city in central Finland.
  • kuprin — Alexander Ivanovich [al-ig-zan-der i-vah-nuh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahndr ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑndr iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1938, Russian novelist and short-story writer.
  • kuspuk — a cloth garment worn by Eskimos over the parka.
  • lap up — (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
  • lapful — as much as the lap can hold.
  • lapsus — a slip of the tongue.
  • laputa — an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.
  • larrup — to beat or thrash.
  • lashup — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.
  • lay up — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
  • lay-up — Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard.
  • le puy — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
  • leg up — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
  • let up — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • lie up — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • lineup — a particular order or disposition of persons or things as arranged or drawn up for action, inspection, etc.
  • linkup — a contact or linkage established, as between military units or two spacecraft.
  • lit up — a simple past tense and past participle of light1 .
  • lockup — a jail, especially a local one for temporary detention.
  • lookup — an act or instance of looking something up, as information in a reference book or an online database.
  • louped — to leap; jump; spring.
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