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9-letter words containing p, o, u, t, e

  • pneumato- — air; breath or breathing; spirit
  • pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
  • poeticule — an inferior poet
  • pollucite — a colourless rare mineral consisting of a hydrated caesium aluminium silicate, often containing some rubidium. It occurs in coarse granite, esp in Manitoba, and is an important source of caesium. Formula: CsAlSi2O6.1⁄2H2O
  • pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
  • popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
  • populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
  • port dues — the charge for the use of a port
  • porthouse — a company that produces port
  • posthouse — house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers
  • postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • posturise — to posture; pose.
  • posturize — to posture; pose.
  • pothunter — a person who hunts for food or profit, ignoring the rules of sport.
  • poudrette — a fertilizer made from dried night soil mixed with other substances, as gypsum and charcoal.
  • poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
  • poulticed — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
  • pound net — a trap for catching fish, consisting of a system of nets staked upright in the water and a rectangular enclosure or pound from which escape is impossible.
  • pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
  • poussette — a dance step in which a couple or several couples dance around the ballroom, holding hands, as in country dances.
  • power cut — break in electricity supply
  • pre-quote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
  • pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
  • proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
  • profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
  • prompture — prompting
  • prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
  • prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • protruded — to project.
  • proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
  • proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
  • prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
  • 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.
  • pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
  • pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
  • pure tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of a simple sinusoidal waveform
  • purported — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
  • pussytoes — any of various woolly plants of the genus Antennaria
  • pyoureter — distention of a ureter with pus.
  • recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
  • route map — road plan showing where to go
  • scope out — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
  • scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
  • sleep out — live-out.
  • sleep-out — live-out.
  • soften up — make softer
  • space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
  • speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • spell out — to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?
  • sporulate — to produce spores.
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