9-letter words containing p, u, t
- enrapture — Give intense pleasure or joy to.
- epauleted — Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.
- epaulette — An ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank.
- epictetus — ?50–?120 ad, Greek Stoic philosopher, who stressed self-renunciation and the brotherhood of man
- epulation — the act of feasting
- epuration — purification
- equipment — The necessary items for a particular purpose.
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- euphemist — One who uses euphemisms.
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.
- europoort — a port in the Netherlands near Rotterdam: developed in the 1960s; handles chiefly oil
- eurytopic — (of a species) able to tolerate a wide range of environments
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- eutropous — (of an insect or plant) adapted for pollination
- excerptum — (from Latin) an excerpt
- exculpate — Show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing.
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- fatten up — To fatten up an animal or person means to make them fatter, by forcing or encouraging them to eat more food.
- fist bump — a gesture of greeting, friendship, triumph, etc., in which two people make a fist and bump each other's knuckles.
- fist pump — a gesture of enthusiasm, victory, etc., in which one raises a fist and thrusts the forearm quickly and forcefully forward or downward.
- flue stop — a rank of flue pipes in an organ.
- four-part — arranged for four voices or instruments
- four-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing four pips; a domino, one half of which bears four pips.
- fps units — an Imperial system of units based on the foot, pound, and second as the units of length, mass, and time. For scientific and most technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
- fruit cup — an assortment of fruits cut into sections or pieces and served in a cup or a glass as an appetizer or dessert.
- frumpiest — frumpish.
- full stop — period (defs 10, 11).
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gather up — collect
- get it up — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get up to — do: sth mischievous
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- grumpiest — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- gruppetto — a turn
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
- gum plant — gumweed.
- gum print — a print made by the gum bichromate process.
- gumptious — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- hauptmann — Gerhart [ger-hahrt] /ˈgɛr hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1862–1946, German dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel Prize 1912.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- hippurite — an extinct type of bivalve mollusc (family Hippuritidae) found as fossils from the late Cretaceous period
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- hospitium — a hospice.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch