9-letter words containing c, e, r, u
- percussor — plexor.
- persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- picocurie — a trillionth of a curie, which is a unit of radioactivity
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- picturize — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- porcupine — any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- precluded — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- precurrer — a precursor, forerunner
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- prededuct — preceding deduction, done or carried out prior to a deduction being made
- prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preoccupy — to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.
- preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
- prescious — prescient
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presecure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- price cut — discount, lowering of costs
- price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
- procedure — subroutine
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- procureur — a procurator; the chief prosecuting attorney in France (procureur général)
- producers — a person who produces.
- pronounce — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prurience — having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
- pucker up — purse your lips to kiss sb
- puckerood — ruined; exhausted
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- purulence — pus.
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- quebecker — a native or inhabitant of Quebec, especially one who is from the city of Quebec and whose native language is French.
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- queercore — a type of gay-oriented punk music
- quenchers — Plural form of quencher.
- quercetin — a yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 5 H 1 0 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the quercitron and other vegetable substances, used as a yellow dye; flavin.
- quercetum — a group of oak trees
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- querencia — (bullfighting) The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand. (from 1930s).
- quickener — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
- quickfire — Alternative form of quick-fire.