7-letter words containing pu
- pull up — the act of pulling or drawing.
- pull-in — vehicle rest stop
- pull-on — the act of pulling or drawing.
- pull-up — an exercise consisting of chinning oneself, as on a horizontal bar attached at each end to a doorpost.
- pullman — plural Pullmans. a railroad sleeping car or parlor car.
- pullout — an act or instance of pulling out; removal.
- pulpify — to reduce to pulp
- pulping — the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- pulpous — soft and yielding
- pulsant — pulsating; vibrant
- pulsate — to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb.
- pulsing — the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- pulsion — the act of driving forward
- pulture — the right of foresters to claim food, drink, and lodging from the inhabitants of a forest for their own maintenance; provisions claimed in this way
- pumicer — a person who polishes something with pumice
- pummelo — pomelo.
- pump up — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- pumping — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
- pumpkin — a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
- pumpman — a person who runs a power-operated pump.
- punakha — a town in W central Bhutan: a former capital of the country
- punalua — a marriage between the sisters of one family and the brothers of another
- punched — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- puncher — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punches — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
- punctum — a tip or small point
- pungent — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- punjabi — a native or inhabitant of the Punjab.
- punning — the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- punster — a person who makes puns frequently.
- pupfish — any of several tiny, stout killifishes of the genus Cyprinodon, inhabiting marshy waters in arid areas of western North America: several species are endangered.
- puppies — a young dog, especially one less than a year old.
- pupunha — the palm Bactris gasipaes, cultivated in tropical America; its large red and orange fruit, which is edible when cooked
- puranic — any of 18 collections of Hindu legends and religious instructions.
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- purcell — Edward Mills [milz] /mɪlz/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1952.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- purfler — someone who purfles
- purging — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- puritan — a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline: during part of the 17th century the Puritans became a powerful political party.
- purlieu — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purline — a longitudinal member in a roof frame, usually for supporting common rafters or the like between the plate and the ridge.
- purloin — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purpart — a purparty.
- purpled — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- purpler — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- purport — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- purpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purpura — a disease characterized by purple or brownish-red spots on the skin or mucous membranes, caused by the extravasation of blood.
- purpure — the tincture or color purple.