8-letter words containing t, u, i
- pulitzer — Joseph, 1847–1911, U.S. journalist and publisher, born in Hungary.
- pulpital — relating to the pulpit
- pulpiter — a preacher
- pulpitry — the art of delivering sermons
- pulpitum — (in many cathedrals and large churches) a stone screen which divides the nave and the choir, often supporting a gallery or loft
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- pumicite — a fine-grained pumice-like volcanic ash
- punditic — of or relating to pundits
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- punition — punishment.
- punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- pupation — to become a pupa.
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- puritans — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purities — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purtiest — pretty.
- put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- putative — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- quaintly — having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
- quantico — a U.S. Marine Corps base and development and education command in NE Virginia, NE of Fredericksburg on the Potomac River.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- quantify — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantile — one of the class of values of a variate that divides the total frequency of a sample or population into a given number of equal proportions.
- quantise — Alternative spelling of quantize.
- quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
- quantize — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quartier — a city district
- quartile — Statistics. (in a frequency distribution) one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into four groups having equal frequencies. Compare first quartile, median, third quartile.
- quartine — (botany, archaic) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
- quatrain — a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
- queen it — a female sovereign or monarch.
- queenite — a supporter of a queen
- queerity — queerness or peculiarity
- querists — Plural form of querist.
- questing — a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quickest — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
- quietens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quieten.
- quietest — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- quieting — Present participle of quiet.
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- quietist — A mystic who follows quietism.
- quietive — a thing which quietens or calms
- quietude — the state of being quiet; tranquillity; calmness; stillness; quiet.
- quiktran — Fortran-like, interactive with debugging facilities. Sammet 1969, p.226.
- quillets — a subtlety or quibble.
- quilters — Plural form of quilter.