8-letter words containing u, p, h
- rum shop — a tavern or shop selling liquor.
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- schlumpy — like a schlump
- shack up — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shake up — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-up — a thorough change in a business, department, or the like, as by dismissals, demotions, etc.
- shape up — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- shape-up — an act or instance of shaping up.
- shift up — When you shift up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- ship out — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- sholapur — a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.
- shook up — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
- shook-up — upset
- shoot up — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
- shoot-up — an act or instance of injecting an addictive drug intravenously.
- shore up — a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.
- shot put — a field event in which a heavy ball or shot is thrown or put for distance.
- showjump — to take part in a showjumping competition
- shtupped — to have sexual intercourse with.
- shunpike — a side road taken instead of a turnpike or expressway to avoid tolls or to travel at a leisurely pace.
- silphium — an American flowering wild plant of the family Asteraceae
- sisyphus — a son of Aeolus and ruler of Corinth, noted for his trickery: he was punished in Tartarus by being compelled to roll a stone to the top of a slope, the stone always escaping him near the top and rolling down again.
- smash up — destroy, break into pieces
- smash-up — the act or an instance of smashing or shattering.
- southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- spherule — a small sphere or spherical body.
- sphygmus — the pulse.
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- subphase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis
- sulphury — of the nature of, characteristic of or resembling sulphur
- sumphish — stupid, sulky
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- superhot — extremely hot
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- the hump — a fit of depression or sulking (esp in the phrase it gives me the hump)
- the lump — self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
- the push — dismissal, esp from employment
- thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- think up — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- throw up — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- thru-put — the quantity or amount of raw material processed within a given time, especially the work done by an electronic computer in a given period of time.
- thumbpot — a tiny flowerpot
- thumping — of, like, or pertaining to a thump.