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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
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