8-letter words containing pu
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punching — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- punctate — marked with points or dots; having minute spots or depressions.
- punctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- punctule — a very small opening
- puncture — the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object.
- punditic — of or relating to pundits
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- pundonor — a point of honour
- pungency — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- puniness — puny quality or condition
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- punition — punishment.
- punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- puntsman — a man in charge of a river punt
- pup tent — shelter tent.
- puparium — a hard barrel-shaped case enclosing the pupae of the housefly and other dipterous insects
- pupation — to become a pupa.
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- pupillar — of or relating to a pupil or a legal ward
- puppetry — the art of making puppets or presenting puppet shows.
- puppydom — the state of being a puppy
- puppyish — a young dog, especially one less than a year old.
- puppyism — impudence
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purebred — of or relating to an animal, all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed.
- purelink — An incremental linker from Pure Software.
- pureness — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
- purfling — to finish with an ornamental border.
- purified — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purifier — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- puriform — resembling pus; purulent.
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- puritans — 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.
- purities — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
- purlicue — a flourish at the end of a pen stroke
- purlieus — purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- purparty — a share of an estate held by coparceners that is apportioned to one upon the division of the estate among them.
- purplish — of or having a somewhat purple hue.
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purpuric — a disease characterized by purple or brownish-red spots on the skin or mucous membranes, caused by the extravasation of blood.
- purpurin — a reddish, crystalline, anthraquinone dye, C 1 4 H 5 O 2 (OH) 3 , isomeric with flavopurpurin.
- purseful — an amount which can be contained in a purse
- purslane — a low, trailing plant, Portulaca oleracea, having yellow flowers, used as a salad plant and potherb. Compare purslane family.
- pursuant — proceeding after; following (usually followed by to): Pursuant to his studies he took a job in an office.
- pursuing — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- purtiest — pretty.