8-letter words containing s, u, p
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- 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)
- lump sum — money: one-off payment
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- misproud — unreasonably proud.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- mousepox — ectromelia (def 2).
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- mugwumps — Plural form of mugwump.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- 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.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nutpicks — Plural form of nutpick.
- 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.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outpaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outpace.
- outports — Plural form of outport.
- outposts — Plural form of outpost.
- outpours — Plural form of outpour.
- outpress — to press out
- outscoop — to surpass in scooping
- outsleep — to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outspeak — to outdo or excel in speaking.
- outspeed — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- outspell — to surpass at spelling