9-letter words containing u, p, s, r
- persecute — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persuaded — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- persuader — a person or thing that persuades: The cool lake was a most enticing persuader for those who liked to swim.
- 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.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- pesterous — having a propensity to pester, annoy, or to be trying
- 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
- pharsalus — an ancient city in central Greece, in Thessaly: site of Caesar's victory over Pompey 48 b.c.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
- pistorius — Oscar (Leonard Carl), born 1986, South African sprinter in races for below-the-knee amputees; winner of six Paralympic gold medals (2004–2012); found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (1983–2013)
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- plaustral — relating to wagons
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- polydorus — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek sculptor who, with Agesander and Athenodorus, carved the Laocoön group.
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- poudreuse — a small toilet table of the 18th century.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- preassure — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusive — introductory.
- prelusory — introductory.
- prescious — prescient
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presecure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- press run — the number of copies (of a book, newspaper, etc) printed during a continuous printing session
- pressburg — German name of Bratislava.
- pressured — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.