9-letter words containing p, u, t, n
- pure tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of a simple sinusoidal waveform
- purgation — the act of purging.
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- put it on — to make a pretentious show; pretend or exaggerate
- put on to — put in touch with
- put up on — imposed upon; ill-used.
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- quintuple — fivefold; consisting of five parts.
- quintuply — in a quintuple manner; involving five times as much
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rajputana — a former region in NW India, now making up the principal part of Rajasthan.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- round top — a platform round the masthead of a sailing ship
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- sauté pan — a pan used for sautéing food
- soften up — make softer
- soundpost — a small post, usually of pine, on guitars, violins, etc, that joins the front surface to the back, helps to support the bridge, and allows the whole body of the instrument to vibrate
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- sputnik 1 — an unmanned Soviet satellite launched in 1957, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth
- steampunk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- step turn — a turn in which a skier lifts one ski from the snow, faces the ski slightly outward in the direction to be turned, sets it down, and brings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strung up — tense, anxious
- subpotent — not at full strength
- supernate — a supernatant liquid
- superthin — extremely thin
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tarpaulin — a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.
- thereupon — immediately following that.
- top round — a cut of beef taken from inside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
- transumpt — an official or legal transcription, usually an old one
- truepenny — a trusty, honest fellow.
- tubuphone — an instrument resembling a glockenspiel but with metal tubes instead of bars.
- tuptowing — the intensive study of Greek grammar
- tupungato — a mountain between Argentina and Chile, in the Andes. About 22,310 feet (6800 meters).
- umpteenth — of an indefinitely large number in succession: He was the umpteenth person to arrive.
- unadapted — not having changed in accordance with altered circumstances
- unadeptly — in an unadept or unskilled manner
- unadopted — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- unbaptize — to remove the effects of baptism
- uncorrupt — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- underpart — the lower part or side: The underpart of the plane's fuselage scraped the treetops.
- underplot — a plot subordinate to another plot, as in a novel.
- unemptied — not emptied
- unerupted — to burst forth: Molten lava erupted from the top of the volcano. Synonyms: vent.
- unipotent — (of cells) capable of developing into only one type of cell or tissue.