7-letter words containing u, l, p
- lumpish — resembling a lump.
- lumpkin — a heavy or clumsy person
- lumpsum — Paid all at one time.
- lupanar — a brothel; whorehouse.
- lupines — Plural form of lupine.
- lupulin — the glandular hairs of the hop, Humulus lupulus, formerly used in medicine as a sedative.
- mudflap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudlump — a small, short-lived island of clay or silt that forms within a river delta.
- n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
- nail up — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- naipaul — V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) born 1932, English novelist and nonfiction writer, born in Trinidad.
- nampula — a city in E Mozambique.
- nauplii — (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.
- nonplus — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonuple — having nine beats to the measure: a nonuple rhythm.
- nuptial — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nuptual — Misspelling of nuptial.
- octuple — eightfold; eight times as great.
- octuply — in an octuple or eightfold manner
- olympus — Mount, a mountain in NE Greece, on the boundary between Thessaly and Macedonia: mythical abode of the greater Grecian gods. 9730 feet (2966 meters).
- opulent — characterized by or exhibiting opulence: an opulent suite.
- opuscle — Obsolete form of opuscule.
- outleap — to leap ahead of or over.
- outplan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- outplay — to play better than.
- outplod — to exceed in plodding
- outplot — to exceed in plotting
- outpoll — to win more votes than
- outpull — to exceed in ability to attract an audience, attention, etc.; outdraw: a film that is outpulling every other movie in town.
- outyelp — to outdo in yelping
- p value — (statistics) The probability that the opposite of some hypothesis is true, based on some set of results; a way of expressing the significance of a statistical observation. The lower the P value, the more significant the result. For example, if the hypothesis was "This vaccine prevents flu" then the opposite hypothesis (the "null hypothesis") would be "This vaccine has no effect on flu". If the occurence of flu was measured in a sample of people taking the vaccine then one might say that the hypothesis was confirmed with a p value of 5%. That would mean there was a 5% chance of obtaining the same results or better from a similar sample of the whole population even if the vaccine had no effect.
- pabular — relating to pabulum
- pabulum — something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
- paenula — a long, circular cloak, sleeveless and often hooded, worn by the poorer classes in ancient Rome.
- pageful — the amount (of text, etc) that a page will hold
- pailful — a quantity sufficient to fill a pail: a pailful of water.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- pallium — a large, rectangular mantle worn by men in ancient Greece and Rome.
- palmful — an amount that can be held in the palm of a hand
- palouse — a river in NW Idaho and SW Washington, flowing W and S to the Snake River. 140 miles (225 km) long.
- paludal — of or relating to marshes.
- papulae — one of the small, ciliated projections of the body wall of an echinoderm, serving for respiration and excretion.
- papular — a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.
- parlour — Older Use. a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
- parlous — perilous; dangerous.
- parulel — "The PARULEL Parallel Rule Language", S. Stolfo et al, Proc 1991 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, CRC Press 1991, pp.36-45.
- parulis — gumboil.
- pascual — of or relating to pasture
- pasqual — ["Pasqual: A Proposed Generalization of Pascal", R.D. Tennent, TR75-32, Queen's U, Canada, 1975].
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.