9-letter words containing u, n, p, e, t
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- pneumato- — air; breath or breathing; spirit
- pothunter — a person who hunts for food or profit, ignoring the rules of sport.
- pound net — a trap for catching fish, consisting of a system of nets staked upright in the water and a rectangular enclosure or pound from which escape is impossible.
- preattune — to attune in advance or beforehand
- prereturn — of the period before return
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prudently — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- punctuate — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- pure tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of a simple sinusoidal waveform
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- quintuple — fivefold; consisting of five parts.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- sauté pan — a pan used for sautéing food
- soften up — make softer
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- steampunk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- step turn — a turn in which a skier lifts one ski from the snow, faces the ski slightly outward in the direction to be turned, sets it down, and brings the other ski around so that both skis are parallel.
- subpotent — not at full strength
- supernate — a supernatant liquid
- superthin — extremely thin
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- thereupon — immediately following that.
- truepenny — a trusty, honest fellow.
- tubuphone — an instrument resembling a glockenspiel but with metal tubes instead of bars.
- umpteenth — of an indefinitely large number in succession: He was the umpteenth person to arrive.
- unadapted — not having changed in accordance with altered circumstances
- unadeptly — in an unadept or unskilled manner
- unadopted — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- unbaptize — to remove the effects of baptism
- underpart — the lower part or side: The underpart of the plane's fuselage scraped the treetops.
- underplot — a plot subordinate to another plot, as in a novel.
- unemptied — not emptied
- unerupted — to burst forth: Molten lava erupted from the top of the volcano. Synonyms: vent.
- unipotent — (of cells) capable of developing into only one type of cell or tissue.
- unpatched — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- unpatient — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- unperfect — conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
- unpervert — to free (someone) from perversion
- unpiloted — without a pilot; unguided
- unplanted — (of a plant) not set into the ground
- unpleated — not pleated, without pleats
- unpointed — not having a point
- unpotable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.