9-letter words containing p, u, i
- callippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calpurnia — flourished 1st century b.c, third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44. Compare Cornelia (def 2), Pompeia.
- capacious — Something that is capacious has a lot of space to put things in.
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- capsicums — Plural form of capsicum.
- capsulise — Alt form capsulize.
- capsulize — to state (information) in a highly condensed form
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chipmunks — Plural form of chipmunk.
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- computing — Computing is the activity of using a computer and writing programs for it.
- computist — a person who computes
- copiously — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- couponing — the distribution or redemption of promotional coupons
- coupstick — (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- croupiers — Plural form of croupier.
- crumpling — Present participle of crumple.
- cup final — the final of any cup competition
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cuppiness — The state or quality of being cuppy.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- cut-price — Cut-price goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutie pie — a person regarded as appealing or attractive, esp a girl or woman
- cutie-pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- davis cup — an annual international lawn tennis championship for men's teams
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- decupling — Present participle of decuple.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- delphinus — a small constellation in the N hemisphere, between Pegasus and Sagitta
- demipique — a military saddle of the18th century, with its peak roughly half the height of the older war-saddle
- depardieu — Gérard. born 1948, French film actor, granted Russian citizenship in 2013. His films include Jean de Florette (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Green Card (1991), The Man in the Iron Mask (1997), and Tais-toi (2003)
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- depluming — Present participle of deplume.
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- depulping — Also called dental pulp. the inner substance of the tooth, containing arteries, veins, and lymphatic and nerve tissue that communicate with their respective vascular, lymph, and nerve systems.
- diapauses — Plural form of diapause.
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- dipperful — (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.