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7-letter words containing r, u, p

  • poulter — a member of staff within e.g. a monastery or royal household, responsible for the supply of poultry
  • poultry — domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
  • pounder — a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound or a specified number of pounds (often used in combination): He caught only one fish, but it was an eight-pounder.
  • pour-on — Pour-on describes a technique in which a medicine is poured onto and absorbed through the skin.
  • pouring — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • pre-buy — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
  • precoup — of or pertaining to the period before a coup
  • precure — the process of curing a synthetic resin prior to subjecting it to another process
  • predusk — the period before dusk
  • prefund — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
  • prelude — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
  • premium — a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement, as to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
  • premune — having immunity to a disease as a result of latent infection
  • prepuce — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
  • prepupa — an insect in the nonfeeding, inactive stage between the larval period and the pupal period.
  • prequel — a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
  • prerupt — abrupt
  • presume — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
  • preyful — predatory
  • priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
  • primeur — anything (esp fruit or wine) produced early
  • primula — primrose (def 1).
  • proclus — a.d. c411–485, Greek philosopher and theologian.
  • procure — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • prodrug — an inactive substance that is converted to a drug within the body by the action of enzymes or other chemicals.
  • produce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • profumo — John (Dennis). 1915–2006 British Conservative politician; secretary of state for war (1960–63). He resigned after a scandal that threatened the government of Harold Macmillan
  • profuse — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
  • proneur — a flatterer
  • pronoun — any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.
  • pronuke — pronuclear1 .
  • prop up — support, steady
  • proteus — Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
  • protium — the lightest and most common isotope of hydrogen. Symbol: H 1.
  • prouder — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
  • proudly — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
  • prudent — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
  • prudery — excessive propriety or modesty in speech, conduct, etc.
  • prudish — excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
  • pruning — Archaic. to preen.
  • prurigo — a skin condition characterized by itching papules.
  • prussia — a former German state in N and central Germany, extending from France and the Low Countries to the Baltic Sea and Poland: developed as the chief military power of the Continent, leading the North German Confederation from 1867–71, when the German Empire was established; dissolved in 1947 and divided between East and West Germany, Poland, and the former Soviet Union. Area: (in 1939) 294 081 sq km (113 545 sq miles)
  • prussic — of or derived from prussic acid.
  • puberal — of, relating to, or characteristic of puberty.
  • puberty — the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.
  • puckery — puckered.
  • puerile — of or relating to a child or to childhood.
  • puffery — undue or exaggerated praise.
  • pugaree — pugree.
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