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8-letter words containing u, n, p, a

  • rapa nui — Easter Island.
  • rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
  • run past — To run something past someone means the same as to run it by them.
  • sandpump — a pump for wet sand
  • sandspur — an American wild grass
  • saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
  • snarf up — to eat quickly and voraciously; scarf (often followed by down or up).
  • snarl up — To snarl something up means to cause problems which prevent it continuing or making progress.
  • sneakeup — a cowardly, underhanded, or sneaky person
  • spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
  • speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
  • sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
  • sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
  • spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
  • spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
  • spunware — objects formed by spinning.
  • spunyarn — small stuff made from rope yarns twisted together
  • stand up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
  • stand-up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
  • subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
  • subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • sun lamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
  • sunspace — sunroom.
  • superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
  • superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
  • supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
  • supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
  • supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
  • train up — If someone trains you up, they teach you new skills or give you the necessary preparation so that you will reach the standard required for a particular job or activity.
  • trap gun — a firearm designed for trapshooting.
  • trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
  • tube pan — a circular cake pan having a hollow cone-shaped centerpiece: used for baking ring-shaped cakes.
  • tulipant — a turban
  • tympanum — Anatomy, Zoology. middle ear. tympanic membrane.
  • uncapped — to remove a cap or cover from (a bottle, container, etc.).
  • undamped — not damped or dampened; undiminished, as in energy, vigor, etc.: undamped spirits.
  • underlap — to extend partly under.
  • underpay — to pay less than is deserved or usual.
  • unipolar — Also, homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
  • unlapsed — no longer committed to or following the tenets of a particular belief, obligation, position, etc.: a lapsed Catholic.
  • unmapped — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • unpadded — not padded
  • unpained — not suffering pain
  • unpaired — not matched
  • unpanged — without pain or sadness
  • unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
  • unparted — not parted, not separated
  • unpassed — having completed the act of passing.
  • unpathed — not having a path or paths
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