9-letter words containing u, p, o, n
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.
- expounded — Simple past tense and past participle of expound.
- expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
- expulsion — The action of depriving someone of membership in an organization.
- fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- gowpenful — an amount that can be contained in cupped hands
- groupings — Plural form of grouping.
- gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- huon pine — a coniferous tree, Dacrydium franklinii, of Tasmania, having very small cones and yielding timber.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- impounded — Simple past tense and past participle of impound.
- impounder — One who impounds.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- inpouring — The action of pouring something in; an infusion.
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- irruption — a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- let up on — If you let up on someone or something, you stop being so harsh or strict with them.
- long jump — athletics: competition to jump the furthest
- long-jump — Track and Field. to execute a long jump.
- longspurs — Plural form of longspur.
- look upon — regard, consider: as
- loosen up — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- menopause — the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- monkey up — To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution. Compare hack up, kluge up.
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- multipion — involving several or many pions
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
- neuropath — A person affected by nervous disease, or with an abnormally sensitive nervous system.
- neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
- newsfroup — (messaging, humour) A silly synonym for Usenet newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's news:talk.bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, and filk.
- newsgroup — a place on a computer network, especially within Usenet, that maintains an online discussion group on a specific topic: newsgroups for movies.
- no-trumps — a bid or contract to play without trumps
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- nonparous — having borne no children.
- nonplused — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonpluses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nonplus.
- nonporous — full of pores.