8-letter words containing p, u
- aruspicy — haruspicy.
- asperous — Rough, rugged, uneven.
- aspidium — a variety of fern that is used in the treatment of various ailments
- atropous — growing straight, without inversion
- auspices — an augur of ancient Rome.
- autocarp — any fruit that is produced through self-fertilization
- autoharp — a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum
- autolisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used by the Autocad CAD package from Autodesk.
- autopass — (programming)
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- autoptic — relating to or belonging to personal observation
- autostop — Hitchhiking.
- autotype — a photographic process for producing prints in black and white, using a carbon pigment
- autotypy — (dated, photography) An early photographic process that produced autotypes using a carbon pigment.
- b supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube.
- balls up — If you balls up a task or activity, you do it very badly, making a lot of mistakes.
- balls-up — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- beaucoup — a large amount, an abundance
- beauport — city in S Quebec, Canada: suburb of Quebec City: pop. 73,000
- beerpull — the handle of a beer pump.
- bellpull — a handle or rope that is pulled to ring a bell
- bellpush — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- belly up — If a company goes belly up, it does not have enough money to pay its debts.
- beplumed — decorated with feathers
- bespouse — to marry
- bhelpuri — an Indian dish of puffed rice and vegetables
- bicuspid — having or terminating in two cusps or points
- biparous — producing offspring in pairs
- block up — If you block something up or if it blocks up, it is blocked completely so that nothing can get through it.
- blown-up — (of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- booze up — any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
- booze-up — In Britain, a booze-up is a party or other social gathering where people drink a lot of alcohol.
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
- boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- brew pub — a bar serving beer brewed at a small microbrewery on the premises.
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- brush up — If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it.
- buckjump — (of a horse) to buck.
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- buddy up — comrade or chum (often used as a term of address).
- buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- build-up — the physical structure, especially of a person; physique; figure: He had a strong build.