9-letter words containing u, l, r
- pull cord — a cord attached to a blind, light switch, appliance, curtain etc which is pulled to operate it
- pull over — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- pull-ring — a small piece of metal with a ring attached which is pulled to open cans of food, drink, etc
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- pupillary — pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
- pure land — a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.
- pure line — a uniform strain of organisms that is relatively pure genetically because of continued inbreeding and artificial selection.
- pure lisp — A purely functional language derived from Lisp by excluding any feature which causes side-effects.
- pureblood — an individual, especially an animal, whose ancestry consists of a single strain or type unmixed with any other.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purloined — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purloiner — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- purpureal — having a purple colour
- purringly — in a purring manner
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- purulence — pus.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- qu-prolog — An extension of Prolog which performs meta-level computations over object languages, such as predicate calculi and lambda-calculi, which have object-level variables, and quantifiers that create local scopes for those variables. Qu-Prolog is well suited as an implementation language for theorem provers and support notations typically found in texts on mathematics and logic.
- quadrella — four nominated horse races in which the punter bets on selecting the four winners
- quadrille — a card game played by four persons.
- quadruple — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- quadruply — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- qualifier — a person or thing that qualifies.
- quantrill — William Clarke, 1837–65, Confederate guerrilla leader.
- quarreled — Simple past tense and past participle of quarrel.
- quarreler — One who quarrels or is disposed to do so. An arguer or disputer.
- quarterly — occurring, done, paid, issued, etc., at the end of every quarter of a year: a quarterly report; quarterly interest.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
- quicklier — (rare, literary, dated) More quickly; with greater rapidity.
- quillwork — a type of decoration using softened and usually dyed porcupine or bird quills.
- quillwort — any fernlike, aquatic marsh plant of the genus Isoëtes, characterized by clustered, quill-like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases.
- quiverful — The amount held by a quiver.
- radicular — Botany. of or relating to a radicle or root.
- raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- rauwolfia — any tropical tree or shrub of the genus Rauwolfia, as R. serpentina, of India.
- real user — 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage. 2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc.) other than pure exploration. See user. Hackers who are also students may also be real users. "I need this fixed so I can do a problem set. I'm not complaining out of randomness, but as a real user." See also luser.