8-letter words containing pu
- encarpus — a decoration of fruit or flowers on a frieze
- eohippus — Extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum.
- epulotic — a substance that promotes the formation of scar tissue
- espumoso — sparkling wine
- expugned — Simple past tense and past participle of expugn.
- expulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of expulse.
- expunged — Simple past tense and past participle of expunge.
- expunger — One who expunges.
- finespun — spun or drawn out to a fine thread.
- footpump — a pump that is operated by foot
- gopurams — Plural form of gopuram.
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- hippuric — of or relating to hippuric acid
- homespun — spun or made at home: homespun cloth.
- hotspurs — Plural form of hotspur.
- impudent — of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery: The student was kept late for impudent behavior.
- impugned — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impugner — One who impugns; one who opposes or contradicts.
- impulsed — Simple past tense and past participle of impulse.
- impulses — Plural form of impulse.
- impulsor — One who or that which impels; an inciter.
- impunity — exemption from punishment.
- impurely — In an impure manner.
- impurify — To make impure.
- impurity — the quality or state of being impure.
- impurple — Alternative form of empurple.
- imputing — Present participle of impute.
- inputted — something that is put in.
- inputter — One who, or that which, inputs.
- irapuato — a city in Guanajuato, in central Mexico.
- jabalpur — a city in central Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- jajapura — Jayapura.
- jam puff — a small pastry with fruit jam inside it
- jamalpur — a city in N Bangladesh.
- jayapura — the W part of the island of New Guinea, formerly a Dutch territory: a province of Indonesia since 1963. About 159,000 sq. mi. (411,810 sq. km). Capital: Jayapura.
- jet pump — A jet pump is a pump that operates on the principle of a high-pressure fluid jet and the venturi effect (= which exerts suction).
- jodhpuri — of or relating to Jodhpur or its inhabitants
- jodhpurs — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- keypunch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- larkspur — a town in W California.
- leg-pull — an amusing hoax, practical joke, or the like: The entire story was a hilarious leg-pull.
- lilliput — an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 cm) tall, described in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- longspur — any of several fringillid birds of the genus Calcarius of tundra or prairie regions of North America, characterized by a long spurlike hind claw on each foot.
- lupuline — of or relating to lupulin
- lyallpur — a city in NE Pakistan.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.