8-letter words containing t, u, l, e, p
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- pubertal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
- pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- pulpiter — a preacher
- pulsejet — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- punctule — a very small opening
- purulent — full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore.
- quelpart — former name of Cheju (def 1).
- resculpt — to sculpt again
- septuple — sevenfold; consisting of seven parts.
- sextuple — consisting of six parts; sexpartite.
- sextuply — to offer a rejoinder
- sleepout — a place, such as an outbuilding or porch, used for sleeping away from the main building
- soutpiel — an English-speaking South African
- spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- splutter — to talk rapidly and somewhat incoherently, as when confused, excited, or embarrassed: When pushed for an explanation, he always spluttered.
- stipules — one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- the lump — self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- tumpline — a strap or sling passed around the chest or forehead to help support a pack carried on a person's back.
- unpolite — impolite.
- uplifted — improved, as in mood or spirit.
- uplifter — a person or thing that uplifts.
- vapulate — to beat or whip
- well-put — 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.