9-letter words containing c, u, s, p
- paracusis — defective hearing.
- 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.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pecunious — having plenty of money; wealthy
- pediculus — a louse
- 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.
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- pop music — popular music
- posticous — hinder; posterior.
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- 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.
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- producers — a person who produces.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- 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
- psych out — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psych-out — an act or instance of psyching out.
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- publicise — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- publicist — a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- punchless — having no punch
- 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.
- push back — force to retreat
- 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.
- putschist — a participant in a putsch.
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- 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.
- repercuss — to have or cause repercussions