7-letter words containing p
- buck up — If you buck someone up or buck up their spirits, you say or do something to make them more cheerful.
- buildup — praise or favorable publicity, esp. when systematic and intended to make something popular, well-known, etc.
- bulk up — If someone or something bulks up or bulks out, they become bigger or heavier.
- bullpen — In baseball, a bullpen is an area alongside the playing field, where pitchers can practice or warm up.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bump up — If you bump up an amount, you increase it suddenly, usually by a lot.
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bumpoff — murder.
- bung up — a stopper for the opening of a cask.
- burn up — If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
- bushpig — a wild pig, Potamochoerus porcus, inhabiting forests in tropical Africa and Madagascar. It is brown or black, with pale markings on the face
- bust up — a failure.
- bust-up — A bust-up is a serious quarrel, often resulting in the end of a relationship.
- by-path — a private path or an indirect or secondary course or means; byway.
- by-play — secondary action or talking carried on apart while the main action proceeds, esp in a play
- by-plot — subplot.
- byplace — a private place
- c-clamp — a general-purpose clamp shaped like the letter C
- c-sharp — C#
- cacoepy — bad or mistaken pronunciation
- cajeput — cajuput
- cajuput — a small myrtaceous tree or shrub, Melaleuca leucadendron, native to the East Indies and Australia, with whitish flowers and leaves
- calapan — a seaport on NE Mindoro, in the central Philippines.
- calipee — the yellow glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the lower shell, considered a delicacy
- caliper — Calipers are an instrument consisting of two long, thin pieces of metal joined together at one end, and are used to measure the size of things.
- caliphs — Plural form of caliph.
- call up — If you call someone up, you telephone them.
- call-up — an order to report for active military service.
- calpack — A kind of cap from Turkic countries, with a high crown.
- calpacs — Plural form of calpac.
- calpain — any of various enzymes in mammals and other organisms that are involved in the proteolysis of endogenous proteins and are regulated by the concentration of calcium ions
- caltrap — Archaic form of caltrop.
- caltrop — any tropical or subtropical plant of the zygophyllaceous genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia that have spiny burs or bracts
- calypso — A calypso is a song about a current subject, sung in a style which originally comes from the West Indies.
- campana — a bell or a bell shape
- campari — a bitter Italian aperitif, often mixed with soda water as a drink
- campers — Plural form of camper.
- campery — campness
- campese — David. born 1962, Australian rugby union player: won 101 international caps (1982–1996), scoring 64 tries
- campest — something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
- camphol — borneol
- camphor — Camphor is a strong-smelling white substance used in various medicines, in mothballs, and in making plastics.
- campily — in a campy manner
- camping — something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
- campion — any of various caryophyllaceous plants of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having red, pink, or white flowers
- campong — a small village or community of houses in Malay-speaking lands.
- campout — a camping trip
- canapes — Plural form of canape.
- canopic — pertaining to Canopus.