8-letter words containing u, n, p
- put upon — imposed upon; ill-used.
- put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
- put-upon — imposed upon; ill-used.
- puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
- puzzolan — pozzolana.
- quipping — a clever or witty remark or comment.
- rapa nui — Easter Island.
- rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
- replunge — the act of replunging
- resupine — lying on the back; supine.
- round up — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- run past — To run something past someone means the same as to run it by them.
- runproof — made to resist unraveling, runs, or running, as stockings or dyes.
- sandpump — a pump for wet sand
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- set upon — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- seven-up — all fours (def 2).
- shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
- sinciput — the forepart of the skull.
- sit-upon — a piece of waterproof fabric or other material carried by campers, hikers, etc., and used for sitting on wet surfaces.
- slumping — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- snarf up — to eat quickly and voraciously; scarf (often followed by down or up).
- snarl up — To snarl something up means to cause problems which prevent it continuing or making progress.
- sneakeup — a cowardly, underhanded, or sneaky person
- soupbone — a bone used for making soup or broth.
- spansule — a modified-release capsule of a drug
- speargun — a device for shooting spears underwater
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- spin out — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- spin-out — the spinning out of control into a rotating skid of a car or other vehicle.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- splenius — a broad muscle on each side of the back of the neck and the upper part of the thoracic region, the action of which draws the head backward and assists in turning it to one side.
- spoonful — as much as a spoon can hold.
- spousing — either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife.
- spouting — a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spudding — Informal. a potato.
- spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
- spunware — objects formed by spinning.
- spunyarn — small stuff made from rope yarns twisted together
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- spurring — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- sputniks — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a series of Soviet earth-orbiting satellites: Sputnik I was the world's first space satellite.
- stand up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
- stand-up — standing erect or upright, as a collar.
- stink up — to cause to stink