9-letter words containing r, e, p, u, t
- grumpiest — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- gruppetto — a turn
- hippurite — an extinct type of bivalve mollusc (family Hippuritidae) found as fossils from the late Cretaceous period
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- imprudent — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- irruptive — of, relating to, or characterized by irruption.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neuropath — A person affected by nervous disease, or with an abnormally sensitive nervous system.
- of repute — A person or thing of repute or of high repute is respected and known to be good.
- opportune — appropriate, favorable, or suitable: an opportune phrase for the occasion.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outporter — an inhabitant or native of a Newfoundland outport
- outpoured — Simple past tense and past participle of outpour.
- outpourer — a person who pours something out
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- outpursue — to pursue farther than
- outrooper — an auctioneer
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
- paper cut — tiny nick caused by sharp paper
- parachute — a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
- parquetry — mosaic work of wood used for floors, wainscoting, etc.; marquetry.
- parroquet — parakeet.
- pasturage — pasture.
- pate dure — hard paste.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- permutate — to cause (something) to undergo permutation.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- perpetual — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- perturbed — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- perturber — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pertusate — stabbed or perforated at the top
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pertussis — whooping cough.
- pesterous — having a propensity to pester, annoy, or to be trying
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- peter out — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- petroleum — oil used for fuel
- petroleur — a male individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.