9-letter words containing p, u, r, e
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- purulence — pus.
- push over — shove to the ground
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- pyoureter — distention of a ureter with pus.
- pyrethrum — any of several chrysanthemums, as Chrysanthemum coccineum, having finely divided leaves and showy red, pink, lilac, or white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- quadruped — four-footed.
- quadruple — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- rapturize — to go into ecstasies or raptures
- re-uptake — the process by which the presynaptic terminal of a neuron reabsorbs and recycles the molecules of neurotransmitter it has previously secreted in conveying an impulse to another neuron.
- 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
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- reposeful — full of or suggesting repose; calm; quiet.
- reproduce — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- reptilium — a building for the public exhibition of reptiles.
- republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
- repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- repurpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reputably — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- reputedly — according to reputation or popular belief: a reputedly honest man.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- resuspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- revved up — a revolution (in an engine or the like).
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rolled-up — Rolled-up objects have been folded or wrapped into a cylindrical shape.
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- rulership — the act or fact of ruling or the state of being ruled: Foreign rulership of the country began in the 18th century.
- runner-up — the competitor, player, or team finishing in second place, as in a race, contest, or tournament.
- rustle up — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- 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.
- 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.
- sea purse — the horny egg case of certain rays and sharks.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint