9-letter words containing p, e, r, u, s
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pure lisp — A purely functional language derived from Lisp by excluding any feature which causes side-effects.
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push over — shove to the ground
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- repercuss — to have or cause repercussions
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- reposeful — full of or suggesting repose; calm; quiet.
- republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- repurpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- resuspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rulership — the act or fact of ruling or the state of being ruled: Foreign rulership of the country began in the 18th century.
- rustle up — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
- scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- sheep-run — a large property for raising sheep
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
- spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spruce up — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spruce-up — an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
- spur gear — a gear having straight teeth cut on the rim parallel to the axis of rotation.