8-letter words containing u, a, p, e
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- copiague — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- copulate — If one animal or person copulates with another, they have sex. You can also say that two animals or people copulate.
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- culpable — If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
- cupcakes — Plural form of cupcake.
- cupolaed — having a cupola
- cuprates — Plural form of cuprate.
- cupulate — shaped like a small cup
- cuspated — Ending in a point.
- dauphine — the wife of a dauphin
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- diapause — a period of suspended development and growth accompanied by decreased metabolism in insects and some other animals. It is correlated with seasonal changes
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dubplate — An acetate recording disk, typically one featuring a dub version of a reggae song that is not yet on general release.
- dungheap — pile of dung
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- earplugs — Plural form of earplug.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- eaten up — food: finished
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- epaulets — Plural form of epaulet.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- epifauna — animals that live on the seabed surface
- equipage — The equipment for a particular purpose.
- espousal — An act of adopting or supporting a cause, belief, or way of life.
- eucalypt — Any tree of the genus Eucalyptus.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- eupepsia — Good digestion.
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- euphrasy — eyebright
- european — geography
- flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flare-up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- gazumped — Simple past tense and past participle of gazump.
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- gunpaper — a type of paper treated with nitric acid so that it has a composition similar to that of guncotton.
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- heads-up — first in rank or position; chief; leading; principal: a head official.
- junkheap — A collection or pile of unwanted things.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
- 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.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- mudspate — mudflow.