9-letter words containing t, o, r, u, e
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- outstride — to surpass in striding
- outstrike — (transitive) To strike faster than.
- outstrive — to strive harder than
- outstroke — a stroke in an outward direction.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- outtravel — (transitive) To exceed in speed or distance travelled.
- outwitter — One who outwits another.
- outworked — Simple past tense and past participle of outwork.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overbuilt — Simple past tense and past participle of overbuild.
- overcount — To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another.
- overlusty — too lusty
- overmount — to surmount
- overstudy — excessive study.
- overstuff — to force too much into: If you overstuff your suitcase, the fastenings may not hold.
- overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
- overtrust — to trust too much
- parroquet — parakeet.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pesterous — having a propensity to pester, annoy, or to be trying
- 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
- pirouette — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- pothunter — a person who hunts for food or profit, ignoring the rules of sport.
- poudrette — a fertilizer made from dried night soil mixed with other substances, as gypsum and charcoal.
- poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- pre-quote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- 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.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prompture — prompting
- 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.
- protruded — to project.
- proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
- 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.
- pure tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of a simple sinusoidal waveform