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7-letter words containing t, i, u, p

  • pitiful — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
  • pituita — thick nasal secretion; phlegm
  • pituite — mucus
  • plaudit — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
  • plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
  • poutine — a dish of chipped potatoes topped with curd cheese and a tomato-based sauce
  • pouting — having the lips sticking out, usually in order to show annoyance or to appear sexually attractive
  • protium — the lightest and most common isotope of hydrogen. Symbol: H 1.
  • 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.
  • pursuit — the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox.
  • purtier — pretty.
  • pushpit — a safety rail at the stern of a boat
  • puttier — a person who putties, as a glazier.
  • putting — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • pythium — a genus of parasitic oomycotes, most of which are plant parasites
  • repunit — any positive integer that consists entirely of the digit 1 repeated, for example, 11, 111, 1111
  • ruptime — Unix Berkeley networking command to report the status of all hosts on the net. See also rwho. See ruptime(1N).
  • silt up — If a river or lake silts up or something silts it up, it becomes blocked with silt.
  • sit-ups — abdominal exercise
  • slipout — an instance of slipping out
  • spinout — a spinning slide or skid by a motor vehicle that is out of control
  • spit up — to eject saliva from the mouth; expectorate.
  • sputnik — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
  • stickup — a holdup; robbery.
  • stipule — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
  • stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
  • stirrup — a loop, ring, or other contrivance of metal, wood, leather, etc., suspended from the saddle of a horse to support the rider's foot.
  • stupids — Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses.
  • suit up — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
  • thimphu — a kingdom in the Himalayas, NE of India: foreign affairs under Indian jurisdiction. About 19,300 sq. mi. (50,000 sq. km). Capital: Thimphu.
  • tidy up — put things in order
  • tied up — to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
  • tilt-up — of or relating to a method of casting concrete walls on site in a horizontal position or preassembling wooden wall and partition frames, then tilting them up into their final position: tilt-up construction.
  • tin cup — a cup made out of tin, especially one used by beggars to solicit money.
  • tipburn — a disease of lettuce, potatoes, and other plants, characterized by browning of the tips and edges of the leaves, resulting from any of several environmental factors, as excessive heat and humidity.
  • tittupy — spritely; lively
  • trip up — a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris.
  • tripura — a state in E India. 4033 sq. mi. (10,445 sq. km). Capital: Agartala.
  • triumph — the act, fact, or condition of being victorious or triumphant; victory; conquest.
  • tupping — Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
  • turnipy — like a turnip
  • unpaint — to remove paint from
  • unplait — to alter from a plaited state; unbraid, as hair.
  • unspilt — not spilled
  • unsplit — not split
  • unstrip — to strip
  • up with — wanting the beginning or continuation of
  • updrift — a slow, upward movement: an updrift in housing starts and home mortgages.
  • uphoist — to raise or hoist upwards
  • uplight — a lamp, often a light bulb set in a cylinder or other container, placed on the floor so that a beam of light is directed upward.
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