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7-letter words containing u, n, p

  • plunder — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
  • plunged — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • plunger — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • plunker — a person or thing that plunks.
  • plunket — Saint Oliver. 1629–81, Irish Roman Catholic churchman and martyr; wrongly executed as a supposed conspirator in the Popish Plot (1678). Feast day: July 11
  • pluvian — a crocodile bird
  • pneumo- — of or related to a lung or the lungs; respiratory
  • ponceau — a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
  • pony up — a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
  • pop-gun — a child's toy gun from which a pellet is shot by compressed air, producing a loud pop.
  • posaune — an organ reed with a tone resembling a trombone
  • poulenc — Francis [frahn-sees] /frɑ̃ˈsis/ (Show IPA), 1899–1963, French composer and pianist.
  • pouncet — box with a perforated top used for perfume
  • poundal — the foot-pound-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one foot per second per second on a mass of one pound. Abbreviation: pdl.
  • pounded — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
  • pounder — a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound or a specified number of pounds (often used in combination): He caught only one fish, but it was an eight-pounder.
  • pour-on — Pour-on describes a technique in which a medicine is poured onto and absorbed through the skin.
  • 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
  • prefund — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • premune — having immunity to a disease as a result of latent infection
  • 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 .
  • prudent — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
  • pruning — Archaic. to preen.
  • puccini — Giacomo [jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1924, Italian operatic composer.
  • 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.
  • pudding — a thick, soft dessert, typically containing flour or some other thickener, milk, eggs, a flavoring, and sweetener: tapioca pudding.
  • pudency — modesty; bashfulness; shamefacedness.
  • pudenda — the external genital organs, especially those of the female; vulva.
  • 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 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-in — vehicle rest stop
  • pull-on — the act of pulling or drawing.
  • pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
  • pulping — the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
  • pulsant — pulsating; vibrant
  • 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.
  • pumpman — a person who runs a power-operated pump.
  • punakha — a town in W central Bhutan: a former capital of the country
  • punalua — a marriage between the sisters of one family and the brothers of another
  • punched — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
  • puncher — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
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