9-letter words containing s, u, r, e, p
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- poudreuse — a small toilet table of the 18th century.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- preassure — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusive — introductory.
- prelusory — introductory.
- prescious — prescient
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presecure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- press run — the number of copies (of a book, newspaper, etc) printed during a continuous printing session
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- pressured — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- presurvey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- producers — a person who produces.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.