7-letter words containing u, n, p, o
- 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
- proneur — a flatterer
- pronoun — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
- pronuke — pronuclear1 .
- puccoon — any of certain plants that yield a red dye, as the bloodroot and certain plants belonging to the genus Lithospermum, of the borage family.
- pull on — 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-on — the act of pulling or drawing.
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- purloin — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- push on — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- roundup — the driving together of cattle, horses, etc., for inspection, branding, shipping to market, or the like, as in the western U.S.
- soupcon — a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
- soupfin — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
- spinous — covered with or having spines; thorny, as a plant.
- spinout — a spinning slide or skid by a motor vehicle that is out of control
- spumone — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- spumoni — an Italian style of ice cream of a very fine and smooth texture, usually containing layers of various colors and flavors and chopped fruit or nuts.
- spur on — encourage
- sunspot — one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena.
- tone up — any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.
- tone-up — an exercise for toning up one's body.
- top gun — Slang. a person who is the best or one of the best in a particular field; the top-ranked person in a group.
- undoped — any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
- unhoped — not expected or anticipated; unhoped-for.
- unposed — not posed; not done for effect; natural or candid: her unposed manner; an unposed photograph.
- unproud — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- unspool — any cylindrical piece or device on which something is wound.
- upborne — to bear up; raise aloft; sustain or support.
- upbound — traveling or affording passage toward the north or in a direction regarded as up: an upbound freighter; the upbound lane of a highway.
- upfront — of or relating to the front.
- upsilon — the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet (Υ, υ).
- utopian — of, relating to, or resembling Utopia, an idealized imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516).
- xenopus — an African clawed frog of the genus Xenopus having no tongue
- yaupons — Plural form of yaupon.