8-letter words that end in p
- botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- brace up — to call forth one's courage, resolution, etc., as after defeat or disappointment
- brain up — to make more intellectually demanding or sophisticated
- break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
- brick up — If you brick up a hole, you close it with a wall of bricks.
- bricktop — a person having red or reddish-brown hair.
- bring up — When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up.
- brush up — If you brush up something or brush up on it, you practise it or improve your knowledge of it.
- buckjump — (of a horse) to buck.
- buddy up — comrade or chum (often used as a term of address).
- buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- build-up — the physical structure, especially of a person; physique; figure: He had a strong build.
- built-up — A built-up area is an area such as a town or city which has a lot of buildings in it.
- bullwhip — A bullwhip is a very long, heavy whip.
- bunch up — If people or things bunch up or bunch together, or if you bunch them up or bunch them together, they move close to each other so that they form a small tight group.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- c-interp — An interpreter for a small subset of C, originally part of a communications package.
- calthrop — any of several plants having spiny heads or fruit, as those of the genera Tribulus and Kallstroemia, or the star thistle, Centaurea calcitrapa.
- carve up — If you say that someone carves something up, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
- cat flap — opening in door for cat
- catch up — If you catch up with someone who is in front of you, you reach them by walking faster than they are walking.
- catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- cell sap — the watery fluid within the central vacuole of a plant cell.
- chalk up — If you chalk up a success, a victory, or a number of points in a game, you achieve it.
- changeup — Alternative form of change-up.
- chase up — If you chase up something that is needed or needs dealing with, you find it or find out what is being done about it.
- check up — If you check up on something, you find out information about it.
- cheer up — When you cheer up or when something cheers you up, you stop feeling depressed and become more cheerful.
- choke up — to block (a drain, pipe, etc) completely
- chuck up — vomit
- chumship — friendship
- chunk up — to toss or throw; chuck: chunking pebbles at the barn door.
- clanship — an association of families under the leadership of a chieftain
- claptrap — If you describe something that someone says as claptrap, you mean that it is stupid or foolish although it may sound important.
- clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- clean-up — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
- clifftop — A clifftop is the area of land around the top of a cliff.
- clock up — If you clock up a large number or total of things, you reach that number or total.
- close up — If someone closes up a building, they shut it completely and securely, often because they are going away.
- close-up — the end or conclusion: at the close of day; the close of the speech.
- clued-up — If you say that someone is clued-up on a particular subject, you are showing your approval of the fact that they have a great deal of detailed knowledge and information about it.
- coked-up — showing the effects of having taken cocaine
- cookshop — a place where prepared food is sold or served; restaurant.
- cop shop — a police station
- cough up — If you cough up an amount of money, you pay or spend that amount, usually when you would prefer not to.
- count up — add, total
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.