8-letter words containing r, u, p, e
- trumpets — a showy pitcher plant, Sarracenia flava, of the southeastern U.S., having prominently veined, crimson-throated, yellow-green leaves and yellow flowers from 2 to 4 inches (5.1 to 10.2 cm) wide.
- turnpike — a high-speed highway, especially one maintained by tolls.
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- uncipher — to decode; decipher
- underlap — to extend partly under.
- underlip — the lower lip
- underpay — to pay less than is deserved or usual.
- underpin — to prop up or support from below; strengthen, as by reinforcing a foundation.
- unexpert — a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority: a language expert.
- unpaired — not matched
- unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- unparted — not parted, not separated
- unpeered — unparalleled, unequalled
- unperson — a public figure, especially in a totalitarian country, who, for political or ideological reasons, is not recognized or mentioned in government publications or records or in the news media.
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unpreach — to retract or undo (preaching)
- unpretty — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- unpriced — not priced; having no price shown or set.
- unpriest — to strip a person of the priesthood; defrock
- unprimed — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- unprized — not treasured or valued
- unprobed — not examined or probed
- unproved — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- unproven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- unpruned — not pruned or trimmed
- unpucker — to remove the wrinkles or puckers from (the brow, mouth, lips, etc)
- unpurely — in an unpure or impure manner
- unpurged — not purged of impurities
- unreaped — (of a harvest, grain, field, etc) not reaped, cut, or gathered
- unrepaid — not repaid
- unrepair — lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation: in a state of unrepair.
- unripely — in an unripe manner
- unspared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- unsphere — to remove from its or one's sphere; displace.
- untemper — to reverse the tempering of; to make (what was tempered) untempered; to soften (steel)
- unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
- up-river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- upcharge — an additional charge: How much is the upcharge for white sidewall tires?
- upgather — to gather up or together: to upgather information.
- upholder — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
- uplander — a person hailing from the uplands
- uplifter — a person or thing that uplifts.
- upmarket — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- uppercut — a swinging blow directed upward, as to an adversary's chin.
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- uprooted — having been pulled up by or as if by the roots
- upstager — someone who upstages
- upstream — toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- upstroke — an upward stroke, especially of a pen or pencil, or of a piston in a vertical cylinder.
- upturned — turned or directed upward: upturned eyes.