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9-letter words containing p, u, d, l

  • guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
  • gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
  • hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
  • impundulu — a mythical bird associated with witchcraft, frequently manifested as the secretary bird
  • impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
  • jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
  • jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
  • lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
  • lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
  • launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • lippitude — the state of having bleary or sore eyes
  • locked up — Synonym for hung, wedged.
  • lucky dip — game: picking out random prize
  • mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
  • nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
  • nonplused — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
  • nonpulsed — Not pulsed.
  • outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
  • palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
  • palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
  • paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
  • paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
  • pedicular — of or relating to lice.
  • pediculus — a louse
  • pendulate — to swing in the motion of a pendulum
  • penduline — (of a bird's nest) hanging; resembling a pendant
  • pendulous — hanging down loosely: pendulous blossoms.
  • pilsudski — Józef [yoo-zef] /ˈyu zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1867–1935, Polish marshal and statesman: president 1918–22; premier 1926–28, 1930.
  • planuloid — relating to a planula
  • plateaued — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
  • platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
  • playdough — children's modelling clay
  • pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • plenitude — fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
  • plugboard — Electricity. an electric switchboard with plugs for telephones and the like.
  • plum duff — a duff containing raisins.
  • plumdamas — a damson plum or prune
  • plummeted — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
  • plunderer — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
  • poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
  • polydorus — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek sculptor who, with Agesander and Athenodorus, carved the Laocoön group.
  • populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
  • poulticed — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
  • praeludia — musical preludes
  • pre-build — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
  • precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal
  • precluded — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
  • prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
  • preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
  • prudently — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
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