8-letter words containing u, p, h
- humphing — Present participle of humph.
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- humpless — having no hump
- hunkpapa — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Teton branch of the Dakota.
- hurry up — go faster
- hurry-up — characterized by speed or the need for speed; quick: a hurry-up meal; a hurry-up phone call.
- hyped up — intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated: an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
- hyped-up — intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated: an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- jodhpuri — of or relating to Jodhpur or its inhabitants
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- josephus — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), (Joseph ben Matthias) a.d. 37?–c100, Jewish historian and general.
- junkheap — A collection or pile of unwanted things.
- junkshop — A shop selling miscellaneous items of questionable value.
- 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.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- light up — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- match up — pair
- match-up — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- nenuphar — A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- northrup — a male given name.
- notch up — make score marks to count
- octopush — the game of underwater hockey, in which two teams attempt to push a weighted object along the floor of a swimming pool
- outpitch — to exceed in pitching
- outpunch — to punch better than
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- panhuman — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- patch up — an act or instance of patching or repair.
- patch-up — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
- penuchle — pinochle.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phone up — call on the telephone
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
- pichurim — a Brazilian laurel tree