9-letter words containing p, a, r, o, u
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- panderous — resembling a pander
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- 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.
- parroquet — parakeet.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pauperdom — the state of being a person who is extremely poor
- peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc
- peasouper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
- plutocrat — a member of a plutocracy.
- pompadour — Marquise de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Le Normant d'Étioles) 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France.
- popularly — by the people as a whole; generally; widely: a fictitious story popularly accepted as true.
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- pourparty — purparty.
- preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
- procuracy — the office of a proctor or procurator.
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- 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.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rap group — an informal discussion group, often supervised by a trained leader, that meets to discuss shared concerns or interests.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- stroupach — a cup of tea