8-letter words containing u, l, p
- kerplunk — with or as if with a sudden muffled thud: The huge stone hit the water kerplunk.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- lapillus — a small stony particle ejected from a volcano.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
- leg-pull — an amusing hoax, practical joke, or the like: The entire story was a hilarious leg-pull.
- light up — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lilliput — an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 cm) tall, described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- liposuck — to subject to liposuction
- lispound — a unit of weight, formerly used in Orkney, Shetland, and Baltic trade, varying from 12 to 34 pounds (5.4 to 15.4kg approx)
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- liven up — make more lively
- longjump — jumping contest decided by length
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- loved-up — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- lump sum — money: one-off payment
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- lupuline — of or relating to lupulin
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- lyallpur — a city in NE Pakistan.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- 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.
- modula-p — "Modula-P: A Language for Parallel Programming Definition and Implementation on a Transputer Network", R. Hoffart et al, IEEE Conf Comp Langs 1992.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- mud flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mud-flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
- multiped — having many feet.
- multiple — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- nauplial — of or relating to nauplius larva
- nauplius — (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.
- neuropil — A dense network of interwoven nerve fibers and their branches and synapses, together with glial filaments.
- nonuplet — One of a group of nine, especially such a multiple birth.
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- octuples — Plural form of octuple.
- octuplet — a group, series, or combination of eight related items.
- octuplex — relating to a form of telegraphy in which eight communications can be sent along one wire at the same time
- oil pump — An oil pump is a pump that sends lubricating oil under pressure to the bearings and other lubricated surfaces of an engine.
- oom paul — Stephanus Johannes Paulus [ste-fah-nœs yoh-hah-nuh s poh-lœs] /stɛˈfɑ nœs yoʊˈhɑ nəs ˈpoʊ lœs/ (Show IPA), ("Oom Paul") 1825–1904, South African statesman: president of the Transvaal 1883–1900.
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.