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8-letter words containing s, o, u, p

  • espousal — An act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life.
  • espoused — Adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
  • espouser — One who espouses; one who embraces or adopts the cause of another.
  • espouses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of espouse.
  • espumoso — sparkling wine
  • exposure — The state of being exposed to contact with something.
  • expounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of expound.
  • fullstop — Alt form full stop.
  • gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
  • gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
  • groupers — Plural form of grouper.
  • groupies — Plural form of groupie.
  • groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
  • groupist — a follower of a group
  • grownups — a mature, fully grown person; adult.
  • gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
  • gypseous — of or relating to gypsum.
  • happoshu — a Japanese drink, similar to beer
  • homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
  • hopefuls — Plural form of hopeful.
  • hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
  • housepet — A domestic pet, one that lives mostly indoors.
  • housetop — the top or roof of a house.
  • imporous — having no pores, having a compact texture, solid
  • imposure — the act of imposing: the imposure of a decree.
  • impounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impound.
  • impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
  • jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
  • josephus — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), (Joseph ben Matthias) a.d. 37?–c100, Jewish historian and general.
  • junkshop — A shop selling miscellaneous items of questionable value.
  • liposuck — to subject to liposuction
  • lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
  • longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
  • louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
  • misproud — unreasonably proud.
  • morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
  • mousepox — ectromelia (def 2).
  • nslookup — (networking)   A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
  • occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • octopush — the game of underwater hockey, in which two teams attempt to push a weighted object along the floor of a swimming pool
  • octuples — Plural form of octuple.
  • opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
  • opiumism — the addictive use of opium as a stimulant or intoxicant.
  • opossums — Plural form of opossum.
  • opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
  • opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
  • opus dei — an international Roman Catholic organization of lay people and priests founded in Spain in 1928 by Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer (1902–75), with the aim of spreading Christian principles
  • opuscule — a small or minor work.
  • out-pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
  • outcrops — Plural form of outcrop.
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