8-letter words containing u, p, r, a
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- superzap — (tool, IBM) An IBM utility program used to quickly patch operating system or application program executable code in preference to editing the source code and recompiling. The SuperZAP program was a quick hack written by one IBM Engineer, possibly from IBM UK, in the late 1960s to directly fix executable files. He needed to fix a bug but it would have taken hours to rebuild the vast OS/360 executables. The S/360 architecture has an instruction ZAP (Zero and Add Packed) for packed decmial arithmetic, that sets the byte at a given address to a given value. Superzap used this to write data given as a string of hex digits to a given location in an executable file in a matter of seconds. Soon the IBM development labs were releasing all Programming Temporary Fixes (PTFs) to OS/360 in this form. OS/360 included a version called IMASPZAP or AMASPZAP which persisted through MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, OS/390 and probably still remains in z/OS, the distant descendent of OS/360.
- trade up — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade-up — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- train up — If someone trains you up, they teach you new skills or give you the necessary preparation so that you will reach the standard required for a particular job or activity.
- trap cut — step cut.
- trap gun — a firearm designed for trapshooting.
- trapunto — quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.
- tropaeum — a monument erected in ancient Greece or, especially, Rome to commemorate a military or naval victory.
- troupial — any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- tupamaro — any of a group of Marxist urban guerrillas in Uruguay
- ultrahip — extremely trendy or fashionable
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- underlap — to extend partly under.
- underpay — to pay less than is deserved or usual.
- unipolar — Also, homopolar. Physics. having or pertaining to a single magnetic or electric pole.
- unpaired — not matched
- unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- unparted — not parted, not separated
- unpraise — to withhold praise from
- unpreach — to retract or undo (preaching)
- unreaped — (of a harvest, grain, field, etc) not reaped, cut, or gathered
- unrepaid — not repaid
- unrepair — lack of repair; disrepair; dilapidation: in a state of unrepair.
- unspared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- unwarped — not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.
- up quark — the quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness and charm equal to 0.
- upcharge — an additional charge: How much is the upcharge for white sidewall tires?
- upgather — to gather up or together: to upgather information.
- uplander — a person hailing from the uplands
- upmarket — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- uprootal — an act or instance of uprooting
- upstager — someone who upstages
- upstairs — up the stairs; to or on an upper floor.
- upstream — toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- ut supra — as above
- vaporous — having the form or characteristics of vapor: a vaporous cloud.
- \uparrow — (character) An upward pointing arrow in LaTeX. See closure.