9-letter words containing u, p, s, e, t
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nonuplets — Plural form of nonuplet.
- octopuses — Plural form of octopus.
- octuplets — Plural form of octuplet.
- outpursue — to pursue farther than
- outsleeps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsleep.
- outspeaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeak.
- outspeeds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeed.
- outspoken — uttered or expressed with frankness or without reserve: outspoken criticism.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- pasturage — pasture.
- penthouse — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- pertusate — stabbed or perforated at the top
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pertussis — whooping cough.
- pesterous — having a propensity to pester, annoy, or to be trying
- pesthouse — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- 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
- phase out — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posthouse — house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- poussette — a dance step in which a couple or several couples dance around the ballroom, holding hands, as in country dances.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- 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.