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8-letter words containing u, p, o, n

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • patinous — patinated.
  • pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
  • peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
  • perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
  • phone up — call on the telephone
  • pinatubo — Mount, an active volcano on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. 4875 feet (1486 meters).
  • plan out — organize in detail
  • pleuston — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
  • plotinus — a.d. 205?–270? Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.
  • plus-one — a person who accompanies an invited person to a social function
  • plutonic — noting or pertaining to a class of igneous rocks that have solidified far below the earth's surface.
  • point up — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • polonium — a radioactive element discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898; Symbol: Po; atomic number: 84; atomic weight: about 210.
  • polonius — the sententious father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
  • postburn — after injury from burns
  • postpunk — of or related to a style of music that followed punk rock
  • potbound — (of a plant) having the roots so densely grown as to fill the container and require repotting.
  • pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
  • poulaine — a shoe or boot with an elongated pointed toe, fashionable in the 15th century.
  • pound on — bang on
  • poundage — confinement within an enclosure or within certain limits.
  • pounding — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
  • preunion — a meeting in advance of a permanent union
  • printout — output produced by a printer, generally on continuous sheets of paper.
  • profound — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
  • pronotum — the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
  • pronouns — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
  • propound — to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.
  • proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
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