9-letter words containing a, d, u, p
- plateaued — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- plumdamas — a damson plum or prune
- pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
- populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- praeludia — musical preludes
- pre-audit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- pseudaxis — sympodium.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pure land — a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.
- push-card — punchboard.
- put ahead — to reset the hands of (a clock) to a later time
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- quadruped — four-footed.
- quadruple — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quadruply — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- saddle up — horse: put a saddle on
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
- superroad — an extremely large road
- surpassed — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
- unadapted — not having changed in accordance with altered circumstances
- unadeptly — in an unadept or unskilled manner
- unadopted — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- unapplied — having a practical purpose or use; derived from or involved with actual phenomena (distinguished from theoretical, opposed to pure): applied mathematics; applied science.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- under par — unwell
- underpaid — to pay less than is deserved or usual.
- underpart — the lower part or side: The underpart of the plane's fuselage scraped the treetops.
- underpass — a passage running underneath, especially a passage for pedestrians or vehicles, or both, crossing under a railroad, road, etc.
- underplay — to act (a part) sketchily.
- unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
- unflapped — not upset or confused; unperturbed.
- unpalsied — not affected by paralysis
- unpatched — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- unplagued — an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
- unplained — unlamented