9-letter words containing p, o, u, r
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupboardy — (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- decoupler — a person or device that disconnects parts that are joined
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
- epuration — purification
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- eurocorps — a multinational army corps based in Strasbourg and participated in by mainly EU countries
- eurocreep — the gradual introduction of the euro into use in Britain
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.
- europhile — One who loves Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
- europoort — a port in the Netherlands near Rotterdam: developed in the 1960s; handles chiefly oil
- eurytopic — (of a species) able to tolerate a wide range of environments
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- eutropous — (of an insect or plant) adapted for pollination
- exposures — Plural form of exposure.
- expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
- fluorspar — fluorite.
- force cup — plunger (def 3).
- four-part — arranged for four voices or instruments
- four-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing four pips; a domino, one half of which bears four pips.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- gaspergou — freshwater drum.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gorakhpur — a city in SE Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- gourd cup — a metal cup of the 16th and 17th centuries having a gourd-shaped bowl mounted on a stem.
- group sex — sexual activity involving three or more people
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- groupings — Plural form of grouping.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- groupware — software that allows users on a network to work together and communicate effectively: Our company uses groupware to share files, databases, calendars, and email.
- groupwise — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.