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.