9-letter words containing p, u, t, r, e
- picturize — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pirouette — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- pothunter — a person who hunts for food or profit, ignoring the rules of sport.
- poudrette — a fertilizer made from dried night soil mixed with other substances, as gypsum and charcoal.
- poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- pre-audit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- pre-quote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- preattune — to attune in advance or beforehand
- prebudget — produced, occurring or implemented prior to the release of the government's Budget
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- prededuct — preceding deduction, done or carried out prior to a deduction being made
- prelature — the office of a prelate.
- premature — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- prereturn — of the period before return
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- price cut — discount, lowering of costs
- price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prompture — prompting
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- 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.
- protruded — to project.
- proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
- prudently — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pterygium — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- puerility — the state or quality of being a child.
- pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.
- puppeteer — a person who manipulates puppets, as in a puppet show.
- pure tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of a simple sinusoidal waveform