9-letter words containing p, u, t
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cup plant — a hardy composite plant, Silphium perfoliatum, of eastern North America, having large yellow flower heads and opposite leaves that envelop the stem, forming a cup.
- cup towel — a dishtowel.
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cupolated — having a cupola or cupolas.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cut-price — Cut-price goods or services are cheaper than usual.
- cutie pie — a person regarded as appealing or attractive, esp a girl or woman
- cutie-pie — darling; sweetheart; sweetie (often used as a term of endearment).
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- death cup — a poisonous mushroom of the genus Amanita.
- departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depicture — (transitive) To make a picture of; to paint or depict.
- depollute — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- depurated — Simple past tense and past participle of depurate.
- deputable — able to be deputed
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- dip fault — a fault that runs perpendicular to the strike of the affected rocks (i.e. parallel to the plane of the angle of dip of the rocks)
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- disputing — to engage in argument or debate.
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- doped-out — under the influence of dope; drugged.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- duct tape — a strongly adhesive silver-gray cloth tape, used in plumbing, household repairs, etc.
- dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
- dumptruck — a small truck used on building sites, having a load-bearing container at the front that can be tipped up to unload the contents
- duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
- duplexity — duplex apartment.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- dutch cap — a woman's lace cap with triangular flaps, characteristic of Dutch national dress
- dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
- duty paid — on which duty has been paid
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- encapture — (transitive) To capture.