9-letter words containing p, u, r, l
- pull-ring — a small piece of metal with a ring attached which is pulled to open cans of food, drink, etc
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- 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.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- pupillary — pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
- pure land — a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.
- 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.
- pureblood — an individual, especially an animal, whose ancestry consists of a single strain or type unmixed with any other.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purloined — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purloiner — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- purpureal — having a purple colour
- purringly — in a purring manner
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- purulence — pus.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- qu-prolog — An extension of Prolog which performs meta-level computations over object languages, such as predicate calculi and lambda-calculi, which have object-level variables, and quantifiers that create local scopes for those variables. Qu-Prolog is well suited as an implementation language for theorem provers and support notations typically found in texts on mathematics and logic.
- quadruple — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quadruply — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- reposeful — full of or suggesting repose; calm; quiet.
- reptilium — a building for the public exhibition of reptiles.
- republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
- 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.
- 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.
- ring-pull — A ring-pull is a metal strip that you pull off the top of a can of drink in order to open it.
- rolled-up — Rolled-up objects have been folded or wrapped into a cylindrical shape.
- rulership — the act or fact of ruling or the state of being ruled: Foreign rulership of the country began in the 18th century.
- rustle up — to make a succession of slight, soft sounds, as of parts rubbing gently one on another, as leaves, silks, or papers.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- 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.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- sparkplug — to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.