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9-letter words containing m, u, r, p

  • lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
  • limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
  • manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
  • marked-up — a visible impression or trace on something, as a line, cut, dent, stain, or bruise: a small mark on his arm.
  • marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
  • marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
  • marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
  • micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
  • mopper-up — a person or thing that mops up.
  • mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
  • mouthpart — Usually, mouthparts. the appendages surrounding or associated with the mouth of arthropods.
  • mu-prolog — (language)   Prolog with "wait" declarations for coroutining, developed by L. Naish of the Univeristy of Melbourne in 1982.
  • mudhopper — an amphibious fish found on mud flats and in mangrove swamps
  • multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
  • multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
  • no-trumps — a bid or contract to play without trumps
  • onopordum — (botany) Any of the genus Onopordum of asteraceous thistles.
  • operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
  • paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
  • paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
  • pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
  • pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
  • pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
  • penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
  • per annum — by the year; yearly.
  • perfumery — perfumes collectively.
  • permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
  • permutate — to cause (something) to undergo permutation.
  • petroleum — oil used for fuel
  • plump for — to drop or fall heavily or suddenly; come down abruptly or with direct impact.
  • pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls
  • pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
  • practicum — (in a college or university) the part of a course consisting of practical work in a particular field.
  • premature — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
  • prenumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
  • prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
  • presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
  • presuming — presumptuous.
  • presummit — of the period prior to a summit
  • primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
  • prompture — prompting
  • promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
  • prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
  • pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
  • puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
  • pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
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