8-letter words containing u, p, o
- prosumer — a person who both consumes and produces a particular commodity
- protrude — to project.
- proturan — a proturan insect; telsontail.
- proud of — highly pleased with or exulting in
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proudful — proud; full of pride.
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- proudish — rather proud
- prounion — the act of uniting two or more things.
- provirus — a viral form that is incorporated into the genetic material of a host cell.
- 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.
- pub food — food served in a pub
- puck hog — a player who is reluctant to pass the puck to other members of his or her team
- 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.
- puff out — swell, inflate with air
- pug nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pug-nose — a short, broad, somewhat turned-up nose.
- pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
- pull for — favour, support
- pull off — the act of pulling or drawing.
- pull out — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull-off — an act of pulling off: The inn is well worth a pull-off from the Interstate.
- pulldown — a mechanism that intermittently advances the film through the film gate of a camera or projector.
- pullover — Also called slipover. a garment, especially a sweater, that must be drawn over the head to be put on.
- pulmonic — pulmonary.
- pulmotor — an apparatus for pumping oxygen into the lungs during artificial respiration
- pulpwood — spruce or other soft wood suitable for making paper.
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- pulvilio — a perfumed powder
- pump box — a chamber of a pump in which a piston operates.
- pump out — emit, produce
- pumphood — a cover for the upper wheel of a chain pump
- 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.
- puppydom — the state of being a puppy
- puriform — resembling pus; purulent.
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- puruloid — resembling pus.
- purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
- push off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- 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 over — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put upon — imposed upon; ill-used.