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

  • pronuncio — a papal ambassador in a country that does not grant the Pope's ambassador precedence over other ambassadors
  • prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
  • proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
  • prurience — having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
  • pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
  • pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
  • pucker up — purse your lips to kiss sb
  • puckerood — ruined; exhausted
  • pull cord — a cord attached to a blind, light switch, appliance, curtain etc which is pulled to operate it
  • punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
  • purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
  • pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
  • purulence — pus.
  • push-card — punchboard.
  • pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
  • quadricep — Quadriceps.
  • rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
  • rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
  • recapture — to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
  • recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
  • repercuss — to have or cause repercussions
  • reproduce — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
  • sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
  • scapulary — scapular1 .
  • scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
  • scrapegut — a fiddle player
  • scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
  • sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
  • scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
  • sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
  • sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
  • spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
  • spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
  • spruce up — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
  • spruce-up — an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
  • stroupach — a cup of tea
  • subscript — written below (distinguished from adscript, superscript).
  • sun porch — a windowed porch or porchlike room having more window than wall area, intended to receive large amounts of sunlight.
  • super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
  • supercede — supersede.
  • supercell — a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding (often used attributively): a supercell in Kansas City; supercell storms.
  • superchic — highly or very chic
  • supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
  • superclub — a large or important club or society
  • supercoil — superhelix.
  • supercold — extremely cold
  • supercool — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
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