9-letter words containing a, p, u, r, e
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gather up — collect
- gear pump — lobular pump.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- groupware — software that allows users on a network to work together and communicate effectively: Our company uses groupware to share files, databases, calendars, and email.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- neuropath — A person affected by nervous disease, or with an abnormally sensitive nervous system.
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
- paper cup — a disposable drinking cup made of paper
- paper cut — tiny nick caused by sharp paper
- par value — face value (def 1).
- parachute — a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- paranaque — a city on Luzon, in the N Philippines, on the S of Manila Bay.
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
- parecious — paroicous.
- parquetry — mosaic work of wood used for floors, wainscoting, etc.; marquetry.
- parroquet — parakeet.
- paruresis — a psychological inability to urinate in the presence of others
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pasturage — pasture.
- pate dure — hard paste.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
- pauperess — a female pauper
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pauperize — to make a pauper of: His extravagance pauperized him.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc
- peasouper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.