6-letter words containing pu
- pumper — a person or thing that pumps.
- punani — the vagina
- punchy — punch-drunk.
- pundit — a learned person, expert, or authority.
- pungle — to make a payment or contribution of (money)
- punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- punjab — a former province in NW British India: now divided between India and Pakistan.
- punkah — (especially in India) a fan, especially a large, swinging, screenlike fan hung from the ceiling and moved by a servant or by machinery.
- punker — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- punkey — a biting midge of the family Ceratopogonidae
- punkie — any of the minute biting gnats of the family Ceratopogonidae.
- punkin — pumpkin.
- punner — a rammer for compacting earth or fresh concrete.
- punnet — a small container or basket for strawberries or other fruit.
- puntat — a walking catfish, Clarias fuscus, introduced in Hawaiian waters.
- punted — Cards. a person who lays a stake against the bank.
- punter — Cards. a person who lays a stake against the bank.
- pupate — to become a pupa.
- puppet — an artificial figure representing a human being or an animal, manipulated by the hand, rods, wires, etc., as on a miniature stage. Compare hand puppet, marionette.
- puppis — a constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Vela and Canis Major, a section of which is crossed by the Milky Way
- pupus' — any hot or cold usually bite-size appetizer, often served in a varied assortment.
- purace — an active volcano in SW Colombia. 15,603 feet (4756 meters).
- purana — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- purdah — the seclusion of women from the sight of men or strangers, practiced by some Muslims and Hindus.
- pureed — a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- purely — entirely; completely.
- purest — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- purfle — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purfly — stout
- purger — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purges — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purify — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purine — a white, crystalline compound, C 5 H 4 N 4 , from which is derived a group of compounds including uric acid, xanthine, and caffeine.
- puriri — a forest tree, Vitex lucens, of New Zealand, having red berries and glossy green leaves and yielding a durable dark brown timber
- purism — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- purist — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- purity — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purled — the action or sound of purling.
- purler — a headlong or spectacular fall (esp in the phrase come a purler)
- purlin — a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- purred — to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does.
- purree — Indian yellow (defs 1, 2a).
- pursed — a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- purser — an officer on a ship who handles financial accounts and various documents relating to the ship and who keeps money and valuables for passengers.
- pursue — to strive to gain; seek to attain or accomplish (an end, object, purpose, etc.).
- purvey — to provide, furnish, or supply (especially food or provisions) usually as a business or service.
- pushed — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- pusher — a person or thing that pushes.
- pushto — Pashto.