9-letter words containing p, i, c, u, l
- punchline — The punchline of a joke or funny story is its last sentence or phrase, which gives it its humour.
- punctilio — a fine point, particular, or detail, as of conduct, ceremony, or procedure.
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- supercoil — superhelix.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- uncleship — the position or status of an uncle; the condition of being an uncle
- unpoliced — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- unpolitic — impolitic.
- untypical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- upcycling — to process (used goods or waste material) so as to produce something that is often better than the original: I upcycled a stained tablecloth into curtains.
- upscaling — located at, moving toward, or of or for the upper end of a social or economic scale: The boutique caters to upscale young career people.
- vulpicide — the act of killing a fox other than by hunting it with hounds.