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9-letter words containing p, u, e

  • dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
  • dunce cap — a tall, cone-shaped hat formerly worn by slow or lazy students as a punishment in school.
  • dung heap — a heap of dung
  • duopolies — Plural form of duopoly.
  • duplexing — duplex apartment.
  • duplexity — duplex apartment.
  • duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
  • ectropium — Ectropion.
  • emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
  • empurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of empurple.
  • empurples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empurple.
  • empyreuma — the smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter
  • encapture — (transitive) To capture.
  • enrapture — Give intense pleasure or joy to.
  • epauleted — Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.
  • epaulette — An ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank.
  • epicedium — Dirge, lament, elegy.
  • epictetus — ?50–?120 ad, Greek Stoic philosopher, who stressed self-renunciation and the brotherhood of man
  • epicurean — Of or concerning Epicurus or his ideas.
  • epicurism — Epicureanism.
  • epicurize — to act as an epicure
  • epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
  • epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
  • epifaunal — relating to epifauna
  • epigenous — growing on the surface, esp the upper surface, of an organism or part
  • epigynous — (of flowers) having the receptacle enclosing and fused with the gynoecium so that the other floral parts arise above it
  • epilobium — a plant from the genus Epilobium, such as willow-herb
  • epilogued — followed by an epilogue
  • epilogues — Plural form of epilogue.
  • epimysium — A sheath of fibrous elastic tissue surrounding a muscle.
  • epineural — (anatomy) Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.
  • epineuria — sheaths of connective tissue around bundles of nerve fibres
  • epizeuxis — (rhetoric) Repeating words in immediate succession.
  • eponymous — (of a person) giving their name to something.
  • epulation — the act of feasting
  • epuration — purification
  • equal pay — the right of a man or woman to receive the same pay as a person of the opposite sex doing the same or similar work for the same or a similar employer
  • equipages — Plural form of equipage.
  • equipment — The necessary items for a particular purpose.
  • equipoise — Balance of forces or interests.
  • equipping — Present participle of equip.
  • eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
  • esophagus — The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
  • espousals — Plural form of espousal.
  • espousing — Present participle of espouse.
  • eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
  • eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
  • eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
  • euphausid — (zoology) Any member of the Euphausidae.
  • euphemise — Alternative spelling of euphemize.
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