9-letter words containing a, p, u, r
- suppurate — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- surpassed — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
- surpasser — a person who surpasses
- surprisal — the act of surprising.
- tarpaulin — a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- transumpt — an official or legal transcription, usually an old one
- trapezium — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapezius — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the upper and back part of the neck, shoulders, and back, the action of which raises, or rotates, or draws back the shoulders, and pulls the head backward or to one side.
- triumphal — of, pertaining to, celebrating, or commemorating a triumph or victory: a triumphal banquet; a triumphal ode.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- ubi supra — where (mentioned or cited) above
- ultraposh — extremely posh
- ultrapure — extremely pure, especially without impurities: ultrapure silicon for semiconductors.
- unapparel — to undress or to remove of clothing
- 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.
- uniparous — Zoology. producing only one egg or offspring at a time.
- uniplanar — confined to a single plane or two-dimensional continuum: uniplanar motion.
- unispiral — having one spiral.
- unpopular — not popular; disliked or ignored by the public or by persons generally.
- unprepare — to make unprepared
- unprofane — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- unsparing — not sparing; liberal or profuse; excessive.
- unsprayed — not sprayed with a chemical
- untapered — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- untrapped — not trapped or snared
- unwrapped — to remove or open the wrapping of.
- up a tree — a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- up to par — If you say that someone or something is not up to par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- up-anchor — to weigh anchor.
- up-market — appealing or catering to high-income consumers; of high quality; not easily affordable or accessible: upmarket fashions.
- upaithric — without a roof
- updraught — an upward movement of air or other gas
- upper air — the atmosphere above the lower portion of the troposphere.
- upper arm — the part of the arm between the shoulder and the elbow.
- upper jaw — the maxilla or upper part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth. In higher vertebrates the upper jaw is fused to the cranium and the lower jaw (mandible)
- uppercase — (of an alphabetical character) capital.
- upperpart — the highest part
- uropygial — of or relating to the uropygium.
- ursprache — a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.
- wap forum — (body) The official body developing Wireless Application Protocol.
- warmed-up — warmed-over (def 1).
- wrapround — made so as to be wrapped round something
- wuppertal — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in W Germany, in the Ruhr Valley: formed by the union of Barmen, Elberfeld, and smaller communities 1929.