8-letter words containing u, p, o, n
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- prounion — the act of uniting two or more things.
- prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
- pruinose — covered with a frostlike bloom or powdery secretion, as a plant surface.
- pudovkin — Vsevolod Ilarionovich [fsye-vuh-luh t ee-luh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /ˈfsyɛ və lət i lə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, Russian motion-picture director.
- pug nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pug-nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pulldown — a mechanism that intermittently advances the film through the film gate of a camera or projector.
- pulmonic — pulmonary.
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
- pundonor — a point of honour
- punition — punishment.
- pupation — to become a pupa.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- put onto — If you put someone onto something useful, you tell them about it.
- put upon — imposed upon; ill-used.
- put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
- put-upon — imposed upon; ill-used.
- puzzolan — pozzolana.
- round up — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- runproof — made to resist unraveling, runs, or running, as stockings or dyes.
- set upon — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- sit-upon — a piece of waterproof fabric or other material carried by campers, hikers, etc., and used for sitting on wet surfaces.
- soupbone — a bone used for making soup or broth.
- 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.
- 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.
- spurgeon — Charles Haddon [had-n] /ˈhæd n/ (Show IPA), 1834–92, English Baptist preacher.
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- 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
- sundrops — any of various plants of the genus Oenothera, of the evening primrose family, having flowers that bloom during the day.
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- sunproof — impervious to sunlight or damage by the rays of the sun.
- sunspots — one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena.
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- unbishop — to remove (someone) from the position of bishop
- uncouple — to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
- unipolar — Also, homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
- unlopped — (of a branch, tree, plant, shoot, etc) not chopped off
- unopened — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- unpeople — to deprive of people; depopulate.
- unperson — a public figure, especially in a totalitarian country, who, for political or ideological reasons, is not recognized or mentioned in government publications or records or in the news media.
- unplowed — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- unpoetic — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- unpoised — not poised; unbalanced
- unpoison — to extract poison from
- unpolish — to remove polish from, to make imperfect