8-letter words containing up
- doupioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- dream up — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dress up — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress-up — being an occasion, situation, etc., for which one must be somewhat formally well-dressed: the first dress-up dance of the season.
- dried-up — depleted of water or moisture; gone dry: a dried-up water hole.
- drink up — finish beverage
- drive-up — serving or accessible to customers who drive up in their cars: a drive-up taco stand; a drive-up window at a bank.
- drupelet — a little drupe, as one of the individual pericarps composing the blackberry.
- duked up — dressed up; ornamented; embellished: an old car duked up with leather upholstery and wire wheels.
- dummy up — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- dup loop — (messaging) /d[y]oop loop/ (also "dupe loop") [FidoNet] An infinite stream of duplicated, near-identical messages on a FidoNet echo, the only difference being unique or mangled identification information applied by a faulty or incorrectly configured system or network gateway, thus rendering dup killers ineffective. If such a duplicate message eventually reaches a system through which it has already passed (with the original identification information), all systems passed on the way back to that system are said to be involved in a dup loop.
- dupattas — Plural form of dupatta.
- duplexed — duplex apartment.
- duplexer — an automatic electronic switching device that permits the use of the same antenna for transmitting and receiving.
- duplexes — Plural form of duplex.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- eaten up — food: finished
- erupting — Present participle of erupt.
- eruption — An act or instance of erupting.
- eruptive — Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- eupepsia — Good digestion.
- eupeptic — Of or having good digestion or a consequent air of healthy good spirits.
- euphenic — of or relating to biological or physical improvement, esp of humans
- euphobia — Fear of hearing good news.
- euphonic — Characterized by euphony; harmonious.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- euphoric — Characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness.
- euphotic — Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
- euphrasy — eyebright
- euphuism — An artificial, highly elaborate way of writing or speaking.
- euphuist — One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; applied especially to a class of writers, in the age of w Elizabeth I, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.
- euphuize — to write or speak in an affected style
- euploidy — (genetics) The condition of having a chromosome number that is an exact multiple of the haploid number for the species.
- fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fired up — enthusiastic, excited
- flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flare-up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
- flareups — Plural form of flareup.
- followup — the act of following.
- frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
- front up — to pay (money) at the beginning of a business arrangement
- grass up — to inform on (someone), esp to the police
- gross up — to increase (net income) to its pretax value
- groupage — the action of gathering people or objects into a group or groups
- groupers — Plural form of grouper.
- groupies — Plural form of groupie.
- grouping — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.