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8-letter words containing p, u

  • cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
  • cpu time — processor time
  • cpu wars — /C-P-U worz/ A 1979 large-format comic by Chas Andres chronicling the attempts of the brainwashed androids of IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) to conquer and destroy the peaceful denizens of HEC (Human Engineered Computers). This rather transparent allegory featured many references to ADVENT and the immortal line "Eat flaming death, minicomputer mongrels!" (uttered, of course, by an IPM stormtrooper). It is alleged that the author subsequently received a letter of appreciation on IBM company stationery from the head of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratories (then, as now, one of the few islands of true hackerdom in the IBM archipelago). The lower loop of the B in the IBM logo, it is said, had been carefully whited out. See eat flaming death.
  • crack up — If someone cracks up, they are under such a lot of emotional strain that they become mentally ill.
  • crank up — If you crank up a machine or device, you start it.
  • crank-up — an act or instance of cranking up.
  • 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
  • cross up — to confuse or disorder
  • cross-up — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
  • croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
  • croupier — A croupier is the person in charge of a gambling table in a casino, who collects the bets and pays money to the people who have won.
  • croupily — in a croupy manner
  • croupous — (medicine) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup.
  • crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
  • crumpled — creased
  • crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
  • cruppers — Plural form of crupper.
  • culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
  • culpably — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
  • culpeper — Nicholas. 1616–54, English herbalist and astrologer; his unauthorized translation (1649) of the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia and his Herbal (1653) popularized herbalism
  • culprits — Plural form of culprit.
  • cup size — a measurement of the parts of a bra that actually hold the breasts
  • cup-tied — (of a team) unable to play another fixture because of involvement in a cup tie
  • cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
  • cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
  • cupidity — Cupidity is a greedy desire for money and possessions.
  • cupolaed — having a cupola
  • cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
  • cupreous — of, consisting of, containing, or resembling copper; coppery
  • cupulate — shaped like a small cup
  • cuspated — Ending in a point.
  • cuspidal — of, like, or having a cusp; cuspidate.
  • cuspidor — spittoon
  • cusplike — Resembling or characteristic of a cusp.
  • 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
  • dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
  • decouple — If two countries, organizations, or ideas that were connected in some way are decoupled, the connection between them is ended.
  • decupled — Simple past tense and past participle of decuple.
  • decuples — Plural form of decuple.
  • decuplet — (physics) A collection of spin-3/2 baryons described in the eightfold way.
  • deplumed — Simple past tense and past participle of deplume.
  • depurant — purifying
  • depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
  • deputies — Plural form of deputy.
  • deputing — Present participle of depute.
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