7-letter words containing u, n, p, i
- panicum — any of the grasses in the genus Panicum, including panic grass
- patulin — a toxic antibiotic, C 7 H 6 O 4 , derived from various fungi, as Penicillium patulum and Aspergillus clavatus.
- pauline — a female given name.
- pauling — Linus Carl [lahy-nuh s] /ˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), 1901–94, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954, Nobel Peace Prize 1962.
- penguin — any of several flightless, aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having webbed feet and wings reduced to flippers.
- pentium — (processor) Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It has two 32-bit 486-type integer pipelines with dependency checking. It can execute a maximum of two instructions per cycle. It does pipelined floating-point and performs branch prediction. It has 16 kilobytes of on-chip cache, a 64-bit memory interface, 8 32-bit general-purpose registers and 8 80-bit floating-point registers. It is built from 3.1 million transistors on a 262.4 mm^2 die with ~2.3 million transistors in the core logic. Its clock rate is 66MHz, heat dissipation is 16W, integer performance is 64.5 SPECint92, floating-point performance 56.9 SPECfp92. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number. The successors are the Pentium Pro and Pentium II. The following Pentium variants all belong to "x86 Family 6", as reported by "Microsoft Windows" when identifying the CPU: Model Name 1 Pentium Pro 2 ? 3 Pentium II 4 ? 5, 6 Celeron or Pentium II 7 Pentium III 8 Celeron uPGA2 or Mobile Pentium III A floating-point division bug was discovered in October 1994.
- petunia — flowering plant
- phineus — a brother of Cepheus who was not brave enough to rescue his betrothed Andromeda from a sea monster and who was eventually turned to stone.
- pilinut — type of nut found in the Philippines
- pin-out — (hardware) (Or "pinout") The allocation of logical functions or signals to the electrical connection points (pins) of an integrated circuit or other component or connector.
- pinetum — an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
- pinguid — fat; oily.
- pinnula — a pinnule.
- pinnule — Zoology. a part or organ resembling a barb of a feather, a fin, or the like. a finlet.
- pintubi — an Aboriginal people of the southern border area of Western Australia and the Northern Territory
- piquant — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- piquing — to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride: She was greatly piqued when they refused her invitation.
- pkunzip — (tool, compression) A program to unpack archives created by PKZIP, written by PKWARE, Inc. and released as shareware. Versions exist for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and Open VMS. PKUNZIP is no longer distributed, its functions having been incorporated into PKZIP.
- plug in — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
- plug-in — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
- pluming — a feather.
- pluvian — a crocodile bird
- pouring — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- poussin — Nicolas [nee-kaw-lah] /ni kɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1594–1655, French painter.
- poutine — a dish of chipped potatoes topped with curd cheese and a tomato-based sauce
- pouting — having the lips sticking out, usually in order to show annoyance or to appear sexually attractive
- pruning — Archaic. to preen.
- puccini — Giacomo [jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1924, Italian operatic composer.
- pudding — a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener: tapioca pudding.
- pugging — Also called pugmark. a footprint, especially of a game animal.
- pull in — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull-in — vehicle rest stop
- pulping — the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- pulsing — 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.
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- pumping — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- pumpkin — a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
- punjabi — a native or inhabitant of the Punjab.
- punning — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- purging — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purline — a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- purloin — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purring — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- pursing — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- push in — (of a crime) accomplished by waiting until a victim has unlocked or opened the door before making a forced entry.
- push-in — (of a crime) accomplished by waiting until a victim has unlocked or opened the door before making a forced entry.
- pushing — that pushes.
- pushkin — Alexander Sergeevich [al-ig-zan-der sur-gey-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr syir-gye-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1799–1837, Russian poet, short-story writer, and dramatist.