Pause

Definition: Pause

Pause

Noun

1. A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.

2. Temporary inactivity.

Verb

1. Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused".

2. Cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pause" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pause

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Phrase: "I pause for a reply".

Intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping; Verb: closure, stoppage, halt; arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture.

Discontinuity

Discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect; (disjoin); dissever.

Hopelessness

Phrase: "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate"; its days are numbered; the worst come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure"; "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon"; "mene mene tekel upharson".

Inaction

Verb: not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive; abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias; rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain; (avoid) keep oneself from doing; remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist; (relinquish); stop; (cease); pause; (be quiet).

Irresolution

Verb: be irresolute; Adjective: hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle; (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would"; falter, waver

Lateness

Delay, delation; cunctation, procrastination; deferring, deferral; Verb: postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution; protraction, prolongation; Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case; leeway; high time; moratorium, holdover.

Quiescence

Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue).

Pause, lull; (cessation); stand still; standing still; Verb: lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo.

Repose

Relaxation, breathing time; halt, stay, pause; (cessation); respite.

Relax, unbend, slacken; take breath; (refresh); rest upon one's oars; pause; (cease); stay one's hand.

Unbelief Doubt

Demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.

Crosswords: Pause

Danish (break, intermission, pause, recess), French (break, check, intermission, interval, letup, lull, pause, recess, rest, stop, stoppage, subsidence, time out), German (break, copy, halt, intermission, interval, letup, lull, pause, playtime, recess, recreation, rest, tracing, truce), Norwegian (interlude, intermission, interval).

Marriage is just a way of getting out of an embarrassing pause in conversation (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Miss Haynes, if you're ever under a falling building and someone offers to pick you upand carry you to safety, don't think, don't pause, don't hesitate for a moment, just spit in his eye, (White Christmas; writing credit: Norman Krasna; Norman Panama)

One long pause, then you begin, oh look what the cat's bought in (Hunter; performing artist: Dido)

Pause, just because you wanna get up in my drawers (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT)

Any stank puss make my long john pause (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris)

The timid smile and pause to free (Twist in my Sobriety; performing artist: Tanita Tikaram)

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Paul, please pause for proper applause. (references; author: unknown)

Die Nacht ohne Pause (1931)

Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (2003)

Reno: Rebel Without a Pause (2002)

Faux Pause (1998)

Rigoletto hat keine Pause oder Der lästige Ungar (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Masterplots II: Poetry: 'A'-Brief Pause in the Organ Recital (reference)

• Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative (reference)

• Pause :59 Minutes of Motion Graphics (reference)

• Pause Between Acts (reference)

• Pause for Power: A Year in the Word (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• A Pregnant Pause [EP] (reference)

• Pause (reference)

• Pregnant Pause (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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AQUARIUS aquanauts pause to converse in talk bubble. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

[Patient and Red Cross Volunteer pause by the "Pools of Bethesda", located on either side of the main entrance of the Clinical Center] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jerry Hecht..

Italian skiing troops, during a pause in their "battles against the clouds" with the Austrians, manoeuvring for fresh assaults. Credit: Library of Congress.

California shipyard workers. This woman worker pushes back her helmet during a moment's pause from her welding job at the Richmond shipyard in California. Credit: Library of Congress.

The wheel of the law turns without pause ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

After this, he made some progress without any pause.

Another pause of silence ensued

His colour changed though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes

After what it had calculated to ten significant decimal places as being the precise length of pause most likely to convey a general contempt for all things mattressy, the robot continued to walk round in tight circles

After a brief pause, the physician turned away

There was a pause.

At the pause in the chain of hands her hand had lain in his an instant, a soft merchandise

Give me some little breath, some pause, dear Lord, Before I positively speak in this

Now a response filled in the pause, and the exhortation went up with a tone of triumph, and a growl of power came into the voice

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The heart then seems to pause until the next beat of the ventricle occurs in a regular fashion. (references)

Apnea--Cessation of respiratory air flow. The respiratory pause may be central or diaphragmatic (i.e., no respiratory effort), obstructive (usually due to upper airway obstruction), or mixed. (references)

Apnea of Infancy (AOI)--An unexplained episode of cessation of breathing for 20 seconds or longer, or a shorter respiratory pause associated with bradycardia, cyanosis, pallor, and/or marked hypotonia. (references)

Economic History

Israel

Despite this pause in the industry's growth, it appears that Israel's high-tech sector will remain the major force for growth and development in the Israeli economy. (references)

India

In 1997, high-level Indo-Pakistani talks resumed after a 3-year pause. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

When working with an interpreter, one should speak slowly and clearly in simple sentences and pause often for interpretation (generally at the end of a paragraph). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A pause

Expressions using "pause": at pause ♦ Caesural pause ♦ general pause ♦ make a pause ♦ pause on ♦ pause on a word ♦ pause upon ♦ pay pause ♦ rest pause ♦ sinus pause ♦ To pause upon. Additional references.

Beginning with "pause": pause-calculating, pause-dependent, pause-dotted, pause-engage, pause-type.

Ending with "pause": play-pause, record-pause.

Afrikaans

pouse (break, intermission, recess). (various references)

Albanian

pushoj (cease, desist, die, discontinue, dismiss, give over, hush, intermit, pacify, pass, quiet down, quieten, quit, rest, shut down, Stow), pushim (break, cease, cessation, chuck, discharge, dismissal, dismission, intermission, leave, letup, outage, playtime, recess, recreation, relaxation, reprieve, respite, rest, standstill, stoppage), shenjë pikësimi (punctuation, stop), ndalesë (check, halt, rest, stand, standstill, station, stop, stopover, stoppage, stopping), ndalem (break off, call on, drop in, drop off, dwell on, halt, lay off, light, pull up, put up, stand, stand still, stop), heshtje (mutism, quiet, quietness, quietude, reticence, silence, still, stillness), bëj një pauzë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فترة إستراحة (intermission, recess), ‏نقطة توقف, ‏وقفة (deportment, posture, station), ‏وقوف (halt, stand, standing, standoff, station), ‏وقف في الشعر, ‏وقف (bait, bristle, carry, cessation, check, come to a halt, devote, discontinuation, disposal, get up, halt, pull up, refraining, rise, severance, stand, stand up, stasis, stood, stoppage, stopping), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏تردد (ambivalence, backwards, balance, be in two minds, boggle, crane, demur, difficulty, dither, fainting, falter, flicker, float, fluctuate, fluctuation, hang, haunt, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hover, hum and haw, indecision, irresolution, perplexity, puzzle over, reticence, reverberate, scruple, shilly shally, sound, stick, stop, stumble, tergiversation, timidity, vacillate, vacillation, vibrate, vibration, waver, wobble, worry), ‏صمت لمدة قصيرة, ‏صمت (clamant, hold one's peace, hold one's tongue, keep mum, keep quiet, keep the ball rolling, keeping quiet, muteness, pipe down, quietness, reticence, shut up, silence, still, taciturnity), ‏راحة (comfort, cosiness, ease, grace, leisure, letup, lie, recuperation, relief, repose, rest, stop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спирам се за малко (put in), фермата (hold), колебая се (balance, boggle, chop, crane, demur, dilly dally, dither, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, hover, hum and haw, jib, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, teeter, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo), временно спиране (pretermission), временно замлъкване, бавя се (linger, procrastinate), прекъсване (adjournment, breaking, cessation, check, cutback, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disjunction, halt, intermission, interruption, knock, letup, outage, pretermission, standstill, suspension, time out), правя пауза, постоявам, пауза (break, gap, interact, intermission, interregnum, interval, rest, stop, time off, time out). (various references)

Catalan

descans (break, intermission, recess). (various references)

Chinese 

停頓 , 停留 (Paused, Pausing). (various references)

Czech

prodlévat (linger), pauza (break, halt, stop), přestávka (break, interlude, intermission, interval, lull, rest, standstill, stop), ustat (cease, stop, surcease), udìlat přestávku, oddech (reprieve, rest, truce). (various references)

Danish

pause (break, intermission, recess). (various references)

Dutch

pauzeren (take a break, take a rest). (various references)

Esperanto

paŭzo (break, intermission, recess), paŭzi (take a break, take a rest). (various references)

Faeroese

steðgur (break, intermission, recess), hvíld (break, intermission, recess), íhald (break, intermission, recess). (various references)

Farsi 

مکث کردن (Halt, Letup), مکث (Breather, Halt, Letup, Period, Stay), وقفه (Abeyance, Break, Caesura, Cease, Chasm, Deadlock, Gap, Hiatus, Interval, Jib, Paralysis, Standstill, Station, Stick, Suspension), توقف (Cease, Cessation, Close, Stay, Stop, Suspension, Syncope), درنگ (Halt, Tarry). (various references)

Finnish

tauko (break, intermission, interval, recess, rest). (various references)

French

pause (rest pause), repos. (various references)

German

Pause (break, copy, halt, intermission, interval, letup, lull, playtime, recess, recreation, rest, tracing, truce), zögern (demur, dilatoriness, falter, hang back, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hold back, indecision, indecisions, lag, procrastinate, procrastination, tarry, to demur, to hesitate, to pause, waver), stockung (break, breakdown, congestion, curdling, hesitation, hold up, hold-up, interruption, jam, lull, slackening off, standstill, thickening, traffic jam), pausieren (take a break, take a rest, to pause). (various references)

Greek 

παύση (breather, cessation, dismissal, ebb, halt, rest, stop, stoppage, surcease, suspension), σταματώ (arrest, balk, belay, cease, check, cheese, come to a halt, detain, draw up, give over, grind to a halt, grind to a standstill, halt, hang on, knock off, pull up, put pay to, quit, roll to a halt, stall, stay, stop, trig, waste), διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, recess, respite, severance, vacation). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרוח זמן, לשהות (abide, linger, sojourn, stay), לפון (hesitate), לעשות הפסקה, תנוחה (halt, position, posture, rest, stance), שהי (fermata), שהות (leisure, stay, time), אתנחתא, אתנח (semicolon), הפוגה (cessation, interlude, intermission, interval, lull, respite, truce), הפסקה (break, cessation, intermission, interruption, interval, letup, stop). (various references)

Hungarian

szünet (break, cease, check, halt, intermission, interval, let up, lull, playtime, recess, respite, silence, stand, stop), szünetelés (intermission, intermittence), megszakítás (abortion, adjournment, breach, break, discontinuance, discontinuity, failure, hiatus, intermission, intermittent, making and breaking, miscarriage, rupture, suspense, suspension). (various references)

Indonesian

penundaan (abeyance, adjournment, cessation, interlude, interregnum, postponement), istirahat (recess, relaxation, repose), berhenti (cease, desist, quit, resign, stop). (various references)

Italian

sosta (break, halt, layover, rest, stop, stopover, stoppage, stopping), pausa (break, breather, cessation, intermission, lull, respite, rest, stand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

間 (interval, room, space, time), ボンド紙 (Bomby blood, bond paper, boneless ham, bonnet, compressed gas cylinder, hood, poker, poker face, Poland, polar tie, poral, porcelain, porch, pork, pork chop, pork cutlet, pork saute, port, port cutlet, port tower, port wine, portability, portable, porter, portfolio, pose, pouch), 休止 (cessation, rest), 句読 (punctuation), 句切り　 (punctuation, stopping place), 句切り (punctuation, stopping place), 切目 (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, notch, rift, section), 切れ目 (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, notch, rift, section). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ポーズ , ポース (pose), くぎり (a stop, an end, punctuation, stopping place), きれめ (break, cut, end, gap, incision, interruption, notch, rift, section), きゅうし (bow and arrow, cessation, dying in miserable circumstances, express messenger, historic ruins, historic site, molar, narrowly averting death, one's old master, one's old teacher, rest, ruins, sudden death), くとう (agonizing, punctuation), ま (demon, devil, due, evil spirit evil influence, genuine, just, pure, right, room, space, time, true). (various references)

Korean 

쉼 (Reposing). (various references)

Manx

sthappal (stoppage), sthap, scuirr (abort, adjourn, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop), farkiaght, farkaght (stay, wait). (various references)

Pig Latin

ausepay.(various references)

Portuguese

pausa (break, breath, breather, caesura, cessation, check, halt, intermission, interruption, interval, letup, recess, respite, rest, standstill, stopping, time-out, truce). (various references)

Romanian

pauzã (break, interlude, intermission, interruption, interval, lull, recess, respite, rest, rule, spell, stand, stop, truce), interval (aisle, distance, gap, headway, interregnum, Interspace, interval, lapse, space, space bar, while), acalmie (armistice, lull, respite, rest, truce), şovãi (back, boggle, falter, fluctuate, hang back, hesitate, linger, shilly shally, shuffle, spare, stagger, vacillate, waver), şovãialã (hesitation, indecision, indetermination, shilly shally, ticklishness, vacillation, wavering), cenzurã (censorship), coroanã (chaplet, circle, corona, coronal, coronet, crown, Garland, ring, wreath), ezita (back, boggle, crane, demur, falter, fluctuate, halt, hang, hesitate, hobble, hold back, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, stand off, stand on, sway, vacillate, veer, waver, wobble), întrerupere (abruption, arrest, breach, catch, cessation, chasm, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuity, disjunction, intermission, interruption, interval, lapse, lock out, stop, stoppage, stopping, suspense), face o pauzã, tãcea (be mum, cease, hush up), odihnã (calm, comfort, ease, peace, refreshment, relaxation, reposal, repose, rest, restfulness, sleep), oprire (arrest, ban, block, call off, cease, cessation, containment, end, foreclosure, halt, interruption, let up, obstruction, prohibition, retention, stage, stall, stand, standstill, station, stay, stick, stop, stoppage, stopping), rãgaz (dalliance, interregnum, interruption, leisure, peace, reprieve, respite, rest, time, truce), reţinere (check, continence, deduction, detention, moderation, reservation, restraint, retainer, retention, stoppage), se opri (break, cease, check, come down, come to a stand, come to a stop, draw up, halt, let up, rest, stand, stand at, stop), ezitare (demur, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, hover, indecision, poise, stagger, stumble, vacillation, wavering, wobble). (various references)

Russian 

цезура (caesura, rest), фермата, остановка (cessation, halt, hitch, lay over, layover, letup, locking, pit stop, shut-down, shutdowns, shutoff, stand, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up, tie-up, trapping), останавливаться пауза, останавливаться (cease, come to a standstill, come to rest, dwell, halt, repose, run down, shut down, stand, stop, stop away), замешательство (abashment, apalment, appalment, bewilderment, blue fear, blue funk, disarray, embarrassment, nonplus, perplexity, puzzlement), промежуток (clearance, gap, interim, interstice, interval, lapse, space), пробел (blank, blank space, gap, hiatus, lacuna, minus, space, space bar, void), перерыв (adjournment, break, discontinuity, disturbance, intermission, interruption, letup, pretermission, rest, time out), пауза (hold, rest), делать паузу. (various references)

Scottish

stad (a stop, cease, cessation, hinder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekid (abort, abruption, adjournment, break, cease, cessation, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, disruption, interlude, intermission, interruption, letup, rupture, severance), predah (breather, rest), pauza (break, breather, intermission, rest), zaustaviti se (come to a halt, jib, pull by, pull over, pull up), zastoj (deadlock, halt, hitch, hold up, malfunction, misfire, slowdown, stagnancy, stagnation, stand, standstill, stasis, stoppage, tie up), zastati (break off, lodge, stop), oklevati (belie, demur, hesitate, jib, linger, procrastinate, shilly shally, traduce), oduška (outlet, rest, vent, ventil), odmor (break, caesura, holiday, intermission, pastime, quiet, recess, reposal, repose, respite, rest, vacation), kolebati se (dilly dally, dillydally, fluctuate, vacillate, waver). (various references)

Spanish

descanso (at ease, break, breather, breathing space, decree, distraction, diversion, encampment, flop, half time, holidays, interlude, intermission, interval, landing, let up, recess, relaxation, repose, rest, stand at ease, tease, time out, travel), pausa (break, breather, breathing spell, delay, detention, interlude, intermission, interval, lapse, period, rest, slowness, stop, wait), hacer una pausa (take a break). (various references)

Swedish

rast (break, halt, recreation, repose, rest), paus (break, breather, halt, interlude, intermission, interval, letup, lull, recess, rest, stop, time out, wait), uppehåll (break, intermission, interruption, interval, recess, sojourn, stay, stop). (various references)

Turkish

uzatma işareti (macron), tereddüd etmek (balk at, be vague about smth., dither, falter, halt, hesitate, oscillate, pendulate, scruple, seesaw, shilly shally, stagger, stickle, vacillate, vibrate, waver, wobble, yaw), tereddüd (demur, doubt, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indeterminate, irresolution, oscillation, perplexity, puzzle, quandary, shilly shally, suspense, uncertainty, vacillation, vibration, wobble), teneffüs (break, playtime, recreation, respiration, slack), sekte (failure, interruption, standstill), mola (bait, baiting, break, breather, breathing space, intermission, recess, slack, stopover, time out), durma (cessation, full stop, go ahead, halt, pose, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, tie up), duraksamak (balk, baulk, come to a stop, dither, falter, halt, hang back, hesitate, hobble, hover, vibrate, waver), duraklamak (come to a standstill, lag, lag behind), ara vermek (break, discontinue, have a break, intermit, interrupt, lay off, lay over, lie off, make a pause, prorogue, recess, remit, space, space out, surcease, suspend), ara verme (prorogation, relief, solution, suspension). (various references)

Turkmen 

togtamak (cease, stop), sem bolmak, sдg, sagynmak (delay, hesitate), iriюme (hesitation), dyngy. (various references)

Ukrainian

вагатися (balance, boggle, deliberate, demur, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, halt, hesitate, hover, oscillate, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle), нерішучість (backwardness, doubtfulness, embarrassment, fluctuation, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, shilly shally, weakness), зупинятися (alight, bait, draw up, put in, run down, stanch, stand still, stay, stop), затримуватися (bait, hold off, linger, stick), перерва (adjournment, blow, break, caesura, cessation, discontinuity, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interstice, letup, pretermission, recreation, rest, vacation), пауза (break, breath, caesura, interregnum, interval, stop). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tạm nghỉ (halt, truce), chỗ ngắt giọng. (various references)

Welsh

pwyllo (consider, reflect), ymbwyllo (reflect), saib (leisure, rest). (various references)

caesa, caesi, caesis, caesorum, caesum, conquiescam, conquievit, consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consistunt, constiterant, intermissione, mora, moram, moras, moria, moris, morisque, pausa, requie, requiei, requiem, requies, resistat, resistebant, resistebat, resistendum, resistent, resistente, resistentem, resistentes, resistenti, resistentibus, resistere, resisteret, resistet, resistis, resistit, resistite, resistitis, resistunt, restiterat, restiterit, restiterunt, restitistis, restitit. (various references)

pausare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pause": paused, pauser, pausers, pauses. (additional references)

Words ending with "pause": diapause, magnetopause, menopause, mesopause, tropopause. (additional references)

Words containing "pause": diapaused, diapauses, magnetopauses, menopauses, mesopauses, tropopauses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pause" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apise, apuse, ause, bause, Eauze, fause, padse, paduasoy, padus, paisa, paise, paiute, paize, papse, Papush, paques, paruse, pase, pasee, Pasu, pauaer, Pauca, pauge, Paule, paume, paus, pausal, paush, pausi, Paussac, Paust, pauste, pauz, paxus, peluse, pesue, Peuser, phaue, Phaure, phuse, piese, pieuse, plause, pousse, praus, pruse, puse, pusey, pusse, pusue, puusue. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: apes, apse, pase, peas, spae, spue, supe, upas.

-2 letters: ape, asp, eau, pas, pea, pes, pus, sae, sap, sau, sea, spa, sue, sup, ups, use.

-3 letters: ae, as, es, pa, pe, up, us.

+1 letter: auspex, pareus, paused, pauser, pauses, taupes, upases.

+2 letters: ampules, apercus, appulse, aruspex, auspice, capsule, cuspate, eupneas, makeups, opaques, papules, parures, pasteup, pasture, paupers, pausers, peanuts, perusal, petasus, plagues, plaques, pleuras, pneumas, pulsate, pupates, scaleup, scauper, shakeup, shapeup, specula, subpena, takeups, teacups, unspeak, upbears, upbeats, updates, upgazes, upheaps, upleaps, upraise, uprates, uprears, upscale, upstage, upstare, upstate, uptakes, uptears, yaupers.