7-letter words containing t, a, u, p
- pantoum — a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one.
- parquet — a floor composed of short strips or blocks of wood forming a pattern, sometimes with inlays of other woods or other materials.
- parture — departure
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- passout — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- pay cut — a decrease in pay or salary
- pay out — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- paystub — A paystub is a piece of paper given to an employee when he or she is paid stating how much money has been earned and how much has been taken from that sum for things such as tax.
- peanuts — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- petasus — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- petunia — flowering plant
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- piquant — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- pituita — thick nasal secretion; phlegm
- plateau — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- plaudit — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- plautus — Titus Maccius [tahy-tuh s mak-see-uh s] /ˈtaɪ təs ˈmæk si əs/ (Show IPA), c254–c184 b.c, Roman dramatist.
- plumate — resembling a feather, as a hair or bristle that bears smaller hairs.
- pluteal — relating to a pluteus
- pomatum — pomade.
- pukatea — an aromatic New Zealand tree, Laurelia novae-zealandiae, valued for its high-quality timber
- pulsant — pulsating; vibrant
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purpart — a purparty.
- putamen — Botany. a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.
- puttnam — David, Baron. born 1941, British film producer. Films include Chariots of Fire (1981), The Killing Fields (1984), Memphis Belle (1990), and My Life So Far (1999)
- rap out — If you rap out an order or a question, you say it quickly and sharply.
- rapture — ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
- raupatu — the confiscation or seizure of land
- spatula — an implement with a broad, flat, usually flexible blade, used for blending foods or removing them from cooking utensils, mixing drugs, spreading plasters and paints, etc.
- spatule — a spatula
- stackup — stack (def 13).
- startup — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- stay up — not go to bed
- subpart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- suntrap — sunny enclosed area
- take up — the act of taking.
- take-up — the act of taking up.
- talk up — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- tank up — a large receptacle, container, or structure for holding a liquid or gas: tanks for storing oil.
- tap out — type
- tape up — If you tape something up, you fasten tape around it firmly, in order to protect it or hold it in a fixed position.
- tapetum — Botany. a layer of cells often investing the archespore in a developing sporangium and absorbed as the spores mature.