9-letter words containing a, p, u, r
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- pupillary — pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — 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.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purpureal — having a purple colour
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- putrajaya — officially the capital of Malaysia since 1999, in the SW Malay Peninsula, and forming its own federal territory; a high-tech garden city (including nearby Cyberjaya); construction began in 1995 and is expected to be complete in about 2010, with a planned population of over 300 000; government functions transferred in stages from Kuala Lumpur, starting in 1999
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- quadruped — four-footed.
- quadruple — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quadruply — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rajputana — a former region in NW India, now making up the principal part of Rajasthan.
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rapturize — to go into ecstasies or raptures
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- re-uptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- recapture — to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reputably — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- ripuarian — designating or pertaining to a group of Franks who lived along the Rhine in the neighborhood of Cologne during the 4th century or the code of laws observed by them.
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.