9-letter words containing u, n, p, e
- pugginess — stumpiness
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- pulvinule — (at the base of a leafstalk) a small swelling
- pummeling — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- punchless — having no punch
- punchline — The punchline of a joke or funny story is its last sentence or phrase, which gives it its humour.
- punctuate — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- 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 tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of a simple sinusoidal waveform
- purloined — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purloiner — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- purulence — pus.
- pushiness — obnoxiously forward or self-assertive.
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- queen-cup — a North American plant, Clintonia uniflora, of the lily family, having solitary, white flowers and blue berries.
- queenship — the state, office, or dignity of a queen.
- quill pen — dip pen made from feather
- quintuple — fivefold; consisting of five parts.
- repugnant — distasteful, objectionable, or offensive: a repugnant smell.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- resuspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- runner-up — the competitor, player, or team finishing in second place, as in a race, contest, or tournament.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- saphenous — of, relating to, or situated near the saphenous vein.
- sauté pan — a pan used for sautéing food
- sheep-run — a large property for raising sheep
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- soften up — make softer
- spear gun — a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.
- spelunked — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spleenful — full of or displaying spleen.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- spodumene — a mineral, lithium aluminum silicate, LiAlSi 2 O 6 , occurring in prismatic crystals, transparent varieties being used as gems.
- spongeous — relating to or resembling a sponge
- 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.