8-letter words containing u, n, p, i
- kingcups — Plural form of kingcup.
- krumping — a type of dancing in which participants, often wearing face paint, dance with one another in a fast and aggressive style mimicking a fight but without any physical contact
- 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
- lupuline — of or relating to lupulin
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- 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.
- nip curn — a tightfisted woman
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- nut pine — piñon (def 1).
- nutpicks — Plural form of nutpick.
- opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
- opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- outpoint — to excel in number of points, as in a competition or contest.
- pagurian — a hermit crab, especially of the genus Pagurus.
- painture — the art or act of painting
- paludine — marshy
- pantsuit — a woman's suit consisting of slacks and a matching jacket.
- panufnik — Sir Andrzej (ændreɪ). 1914–91, British composer and conductor, born in Poland. His works include nine symphonies, the cantata Winter Solstice (1972), Polish folk-song settings, and ballet music
- panurgic — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.
- patinous — patinated.
- paulinus — Saint, died a.d. 644, Roman missionary in England with Augustine: 1st archbishop of York 633–644.
- penutian — a group of American Indian language families of central and coastal California, including Wintu, Maidu, Yokuts, Miwok, and Costanoan, thought to be descendants of a single protolanguage spoken at a remote period.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineum — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- picumnus — one of two ancient Roman fertility gods.
- pilumnus — one of two ancient gods of fertility.
- pin curl — a small section of hair wound in a circle and secured with a hairpin to set it in a curl
- pin tuck — a narrow ornamental fold used esp on shirt fronts and dress bodices
- pin-curl — to curl (the hair) by using clips or hairpins.
- pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pinchgut — someone who does not give other people enough food
- pine nut — Also, pignoli. the seed of any of several pine trees, as the piñon, eaten roasted or salted or used in making candy, pastry, etc., after removing the hard seed coat.
- pinguefy — to make or become greasy or fat
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- plaguing — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- plainful — sad and mournful
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening