9-letter words containing p, u, e
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- b-picture — B-movie.
- backer-up — a supporter; backer; second.
- balled up — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- base jump — a parachute jump from the top of a building, bridge, cliff, etc., usually at a height of 1,000 feet (305 meters) or less.
- beam pump — A beam pump is an artificial-lift pumping system which uses a type of reciprocating pump to extract oil from an inland well.
- beaten-up — A beaten-up car or other object is old and in bad condition.
- beefed up — strengthened or reinforced.
- beefed-up — strengthened or reinforced.
- beer pump — a pump for drawing beer directly from a keg or cask.
- bell pull — a handle, rope, or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or servant's bell
- bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
- blue lips — a plant, Collinsia grandiflora, of the figwort family, of western central North America, having short-stalked flowers with the upper lip purple or white and the lower lip blue or violet.
- blue pike — a variety of the walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum, inhabiting the Great Lakes.
- blue pill — a pill of blue mass, used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic.
- blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- booked up — If a hotel, restaurant, theatre, or transport service is booked up, it has no rooms, tables, or tickets left for a time or date.
- boozed-up — intoxicated; drunk
- bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- bubble up — A feeling that is bubbling up inside you is growing stronger and stronger.
- bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
- buckle up — When you buckle up in a car or a plane, you fasten your seat belt.
- bugger up — If someone buggers something up, they ruin it or spoil it.
- bull kelp — any of various large brown seaweeds of Pacific and Antarctic waters
- bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
- bundle up — If you bundle up a mass of things, you make them into a bundle by gathering or tying them together.
- bunged up — congested
- buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- cajeputol — cineole.
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capsulise — Alt form capsulize.
- capsulize — to state (information) in a highly condensed form
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cepaceous — having an onion-like smell or taste
- cephalous — having a head
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- change up — When you change up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- change-up — a temporary shift or variation in a normal routine or regular pattern of activity: Reading a mystery novel has been a real change of pace for me.