9-letter words containing p, u, i, r
- price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- prie-dieu — a piece of furniture for kneeling on during prayer, having a rest above, as for a book.
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- print out — the state of being printed.
- print run — edition of book or newspaper
- print-out — the state of being printed.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- pro-hindu — a person, especially of northern India, who adheres to Hinduism.
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- procuring — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- pronuncio — a papal ambassador in a country that does not grant the Pope's ambassador precedence over other ambassadors
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prurience — having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- puerility — the state or quality of being a child.
- puerperia — periods of around six weeks following childbirths when uteruses return to their normal size and shape
- pull-ring — a small piece of metal with a ring attached which is pulled to open cans of food, drink, etc
- pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- pump iron — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- pupillary — pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
- purdonium — a type of coal scuttle having a slanted cover that is raised to open it, and an inner removable metal container for the coal
- pure line — a uniform strain of organisms that is relatively pure genetically because of continued inbreeding and artificial selection.
- pure lisp — A purely functional language derived from Lisp by excluding any feature which causes side-effects.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purloined — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purloiner — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- purringly — in a purring manner
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.