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9-letter words containing p, u, i, r

  • liquor up — a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.
  • manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
  • marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
  • marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
  • marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
  • micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
  • multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
  • multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
  • nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
  • neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
  • neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
  • nullipara — a woman who has never borne a child.
  • nullipore — any of the coralline algae with a crustlike plant body.
  • occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
  • ophiuroid — any echinoderm of the subclass Ophiuroidea, including brittle stars, basket stars, and others, characterized by elongate arms radiating from the disk.
  • opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
  • outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
  • outspring — to spring out
  • outsprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
  • outstrips — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstrip.
  • overequip — to equip, furnish with, or supply excessively
  • oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
  • paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
  • paracusia — defective hearing.
  • paracusis — defective hearing.
  • pardubice — a city in N central Czech Republic, on the Elbe River.
  • parecious — paroicous.
  • paricutin — a volcano in W central Mexico: formed by an eruption 1943–52. 8200 feet (2500 meters).
  • paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
  • partitura — a musical score for several parts
  • paruresis — a psychological inability to urinate in the presence of others
  • pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
  • pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
  • pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
  • pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
  • pauperize — to make a pauper of: His extravagance pauperized him.
  • pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
  • pedicular — of or relating to lice.
  • penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
  • perfusion — the act of perfusing.
  • perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
  • périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
  • peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
  • perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
  • perradius — any of the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
  • pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
  • pertussis — whooping cough.
  • petaurine — relating to a petaurist
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