8-letter words containing up
- 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.
- supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
- supinely — lying on the back, face or front upward.
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplely — supply2 .
- supplial — the act or an instance of supplying
- supplied — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- supplier — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- supplies — to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity.
- supposal — the act of supposing.
- supposed — assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.
- suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- supremum — least upper bound.
- sverdrup — Otto Neumann [awt-toh noi-mahn] /ˈɔt toʊ ˈnɔɪ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1855?–1930, Norwegian explorer of the Arctic.
- sweep up — clean with a broom, brush
- swell up — become enlarged
- tense up — person: become anxious
- think up — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- throw up — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- touch up — the act or state of touching; state or fact of being touched.
- touch-up — an act or instance of touching up: Her makeup needed a touch-up.
- 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.
- troupial — any of several American birds of the family Icteridae, especially one with brilliantly colored plumage, as Icterus icterus, of South America.
- trump up — Cards. any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit. Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- tupamaro — any of a group of Marxist urban guerrillas in Uruguay
- tuppence — twopence.
- tuppenny — twopenny (defs 1–3).
- uncouple — to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
- unsupple — rigid; not supple
- up front — of or relating to the front.
- up quark — the quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness and charm equal to 0.
- up until — in the time before
- up yours — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- up-close — intimate, close-up
- up-front — invested or paid in advance or as beginning capital: an up-front fee of five percent and an additional five percent when the job is done.
- up-phase — a period when the economy is strong and business profits are high or increasing.
- up-river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- up-tempo — a bouncy, fast tempo in music.
- upcharge — an additional charge: How much is the upcharge for white sidewall tires?
- upcoming — coming up; about to take place, appear, or be presented: the upcoming spring fashions.
- upfollow — to come next
- upgather — to gather up or together: to upgather information.
- upgrowth — the process of growing up; development: the upgrowth of nuclear science.
- upheaval — strong or violent change or disturbance, as in a society: the upheaval of war.
- upholder — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
- upington — a city in the N Cape of Good Hope province, in the N Republic of South Africa.
- uplander — a person hailing from the uplands