9-letter words containing u, l, p
- unpleated — not pleated, without pleats
- unpledged — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
- unpliable — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
- unpliably — in an unpliable manner
- unplucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- unplugged — to remove a plug or stopper from.
- unplumbed — not plumbed; not tested or measured with a plumb line.
- unpoliced — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- unpolitic — impolitic.
- unpopular — not popular; disliked or ignored by the public or by persons generally.
- unpotable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- unpulsing — the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- unpuzzled — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- unreplied — to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond: to reply to a question.
- unrumpled — neat
- unsampled — undemonstrated
- unshapely — not shapely
- unspoiled — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- untypable — not able to be categorized; not able to be assigned to a specific type or kind
- untypical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- up-itself — pretentious or pompous
- upcycling — to process (used goods or waste material) so as to produce something that is often better than the original: I upcycled a stained tablecloth into curtains.
- updatable — to bring (a book, figures, or the like) up to date as by adding new information or making corrections: to update a science textbook.
- upholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- uplandish — of or relating to the uplands
- uplifting — inspirational; offering or providing hope, encouragement, salvation, etc.: an uplifting sermon.
- uplighter — a lamp or wall light designed or positioned to cast its light upwards
- upper lip — Your upper lip is the part of your face between your mouth and your nose.
- uprightly — erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
- upscaling — located at, moving toward, or of or for the upper end of a social or economic scale: The boutique caters to upscale young career people.
- uptitling — the practice of conferring grandiose job titles to employees performing relatively menial jobs
- uptrilled — trilled high (used in Samuel Coleridge's poems)
- upwelling — an act or instance of welling up: an upwelling of public support; an upwelling of emotion in his voice.
- uropygial — of or relating to the uropygium.
- usurpedly — in a usurped manner
- vulpecula — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Cygnus and Aquila
- vulpicide — the act of killing a fox other than by hunting it with hounds.
- vulpinism — the characteristics of a fox
- vulpinite — a type of granular anhydrite
- wall plug — an electrical outlet permanently mounted on a wall.
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.
- wood pulp — wood reduced to pulp through mechanical and chemical treatment for use in the manufacture of certain kinds of paper.
- world cup — a trophy emblematic since 1930 of the world championship in soccer and competed for every four years by finalists who have won qualifying matches among more than 150 national teams.
- wuppertal — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, in the Ruhr Valley: formed by the union of Barmen, Elberfeld, and smaller communities 1929.