8-letter words containing u, n, p
- junkpile — A pile of junk; a scrapheap.
- junkshop — A shop selling miscellaneous items of questionable value.
- kerplunk — with or as if with a sudden muffled thud: The huge stone hit the water kerplunk.
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kingcups — Plural form of kingcup.
- knees-up — a party or lively gathering, usually including dancing.
- knock up — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- 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
- longjump — jumping contest decided by length
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lupuline — of or relating to lupulin
- lutropin — Luteinizing hormone.
- mokopuna — (NZ) In M\u0101ori culture, grandchildren, or sometimes children generally.
- mount up — accumulate
- 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.
- nenuphar — A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
- 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.
- no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
- nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
- nonuplet — One of a group of nine, especially such a multiple birth.
- northrup — a male given name.
- notch up — make score marks to count
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- 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.
- occupant — a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something: the occupant of a taxicab; the occupants of the building.
- open cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
- open out — lead to wider area
- open-cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
- opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
- oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
- oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
- opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
- opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- outpaint — to exceed in painting
- outpoint — to excel in number of points, as in a competition or contest.
- outpreen — to exceed in preening
- outpunch — to punch better than
- outspans — Plural form of outspan.
- outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
- outspent — worn-out; exhausted.