6-letter words containing u, n, p
- paunce — Obsolete form of pansy.
- paunch — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- peanut — the pod or the enclosed edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea, of the legume family: the pod is forced underground in growing, where it ripens.
- peneus — ancient name of Salambria.
- penful — the volume of ink held by a pen; the quantity a pen will hold
- penghu — a group of small islands off the coast of SE China, in the Taiwan Strait: controlled by Taiwan. About 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km).
- pengpu — Bengbu.
- pensum — a piece of work or a task to be completed, esp a school exercise
- penult — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- penury — extreme poverty; destitution.
- pignus — property held as security for a debt.
- pignut — the nut of the brown hickory, Carya glabra, of North America.
- pin-up — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- pincus — Gregory Goodwin. 1903–67, US physiologist, whose work on steroid hormones led to the development of the first contraceptive pill
- pindus — a mountain range in central Greece: highest peak, 7665 feet (2335 meters).
- plauen — a city in E Germany.
- plenum — the state or a space in which a gas, usually air, is contained at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
- plugin — capable of or designed for being connected to an electrical power source by plugging in or inserting: a plug-in hair dryer; a plug-in transistor.
- plunge — 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.
- plunky — twanging
- pluton — any body of igneous rock that solidified far below the earth's surface.
- pneum- — pneumo-
- pneuma — the vital spirit; the soul.
- podunk — any small and insignificant or inaccessible town or village: After a year in the big city, I was ready to move back to Podunk.
- pontus — an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.
- popgun — a child's toy gun from which a pellet is shot by compressed air, producing a loud pop.
- potgun — a pot-shaped gun or mortar, a gun with a large bore
- pounce — to swoop down suddenly and grasp, as a bird does in seizing its prey.
- prenup — a prenuptial agreement.
- progun — in favour of the public owning firearms
- pruina — a woolly white covering on some lichens
- pruned — Archaic. to preen.
- pruner — to cut or lop off (twigs, branches, or roots).
- prunes — a variety of plum that dries without spoiling.
- prunus — a plant from the genus Prunus, bearing fruits such as the peach, cherry, plum, and almond
- pudent — lacking in ostentation or humble
- puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
- puisne — Law. younger; inferior in rank; junior, as in appointment.
- puling — whining; whimpering: a puling child.
- pultan — (in India) an infantry regiment
- punani — the vagina
- punchy — punch-drunk.
- pundit — a learned person, expert, or authority.
- pungle — to make a payment or contribution of (money)
- punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- punjab — a former province in NW British India: now divided between India and Pakistan.
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- punker — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- punkey — a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidae
- punkie — any of the minute biting gnats of the family Ceratopogonidae.