8-letter words containing p, u
- built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.
- bull pen — Baseball. a place where relief pitchers warm up during a game. the relief pitchers on a team.
- bullpout — a type of fish
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- bump off — To bump someone off means to kill them.
- bunch up — If people or things bunch up or bunch together, or if you bunch them up or bunch them together, they move close to each other so that they form a small tight group.
- buplever — any of various yellow-flowered umbelliferous plants of the genus Bupleurum
- burp gun — an automatic pistol or submachine gun
- burpless — a belch; eructation.
- bus pass — a prepaid card allowing one to use buses
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bush pig — any of a genus (Potamochoerus) of wild African pigs that live in forested regions
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- campus's — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- campuses — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
- capaneus — one of the Seven against Thebes, who was destroyed by Zeus for blasphemy.
- capitula — Biology. any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone.
- capitule — (obsolete) A summary.
- capsicum — Capsicums are peppers.
- capsular — relating to or resembling a capsule
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- capsules — Plural form of capsule.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- capturer — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- captures — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capuccio — a capuche
- capuched — hooded
- capuches — Plural form of capuche.
- capuchin — any agile intelligent New World monkey of the genus Cebus, inhabiting forests in South America, typically having a cowl of thick hair on the top of the head
- capulets — Plural form of capulet.
- carpeaux — Jean Baptiste [zhahn ba-teest] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), 1827–75, French sculptor.
- carupano — a seaport in N Venezuela.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- catapult — A catapult is a device for shooting small stones. It is made of a Y-shaped stick with a piece of elastic tied between the two top parts.
- catch up — If you catch up with someone who is in front of you, you reach them by walking faster than they are walking.
- catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- centuple — a hundred times as much or as many; hundredfold
- cephalus — the husband of Procris.
- cepstrum — (mathematics) The Fourier transform of the logarithm of a spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.
- chapeaux — a hat.
- chase up — If you chase up something that is needed or needs dealing with, you find it or find out what is being done about it.
- check up — If you check up on something, you find out information about it.
- checkups — Plural form of checkup.
- cheer up — When you cheer up or when something cheers you up, you stop feeling depressed and become more cheerful.
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chipmunk — A chipmunk is a small animal with a large furry tail and a striped back.