9-letter words containing p, u, t
- beaten-up — A beaten-up car or other object is old and in bad condition.
- bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
- bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
- bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
- buttstrap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cajeputol — cineole.
- cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- capturing — Present participle of capture.
- catapults — Plural form of catapult.
- catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- clumpiest — Superlative form of clumpy.
- computant — a person who calculates
- computers — Plural form of computer.
- computing — Computing is the activity of using a computer and writing programs for it.
- computist — a person who computes
- computron — (jargon) /kom'pyoo-tron"/ 1. A notional unit of computing power combining execution speed and storage capacity. E.g. "That machine can't run GNU Emacs, it doesn't have enough computrons!" 2. A mythical subatomic particle that carries computation or information, in much the same way that an electron carries electric charge (see also bogon).
- conceptus — any of various products of conception, including the embryo, fetus, and surrounding tissue
- coproduct — a joint product
- copulated — Simple past tense and past participle of copulate.
- copulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copulate.
- corpulent — If you describe someone as corpulent, you mean they are fat.
- corrupted — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corrupter — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruptor — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- cost-plus — A cost-plus basis for a contract about work to be done is one in which the buyer agrees to pay the seller or contractor all the cost plus a profit.
- cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- coupstick — (historical) A stick or switch used among some Native Americans for making or counting a coup.