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8-letter words containing pu

  • purulent — full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore.
  • puruloid — resembling pus.
  • purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
  • puseyism — Tractarianism.
  • push off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • push-off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
  • pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
  • pushcard — punchboard.
  • pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
  • pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
  • pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
  • pusslike — resembling a puss
  • pussycat — a cat; pussy.
  • pustular — of, relating to, or of the nature of pustules.
  • put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • put back — postpone
  • put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
  • put onto — If you put someone onto something useful, you tell them about it.
  • put over — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • put upon — imposed upon; ill-used.
  • put wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • put-down — a landing of an aircraft.
  • put-upon — imposed upon; ill-used.
  • putative — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
  • puttered — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
  • putumayo — a river in NW South America, flowing SE from S Colombia into the Amazon in NW Brazil. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
  • puyallup — a member of a Salishan-speaking North American Indian tribe living in the Puget Sound area of Washington.
  • puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
  • puzzolan — pozzolana.
  • rasputin — Grigori Efimovich [gri-gawr-ee i-fee-muh-vich;; Russian gryi-gaw-ryee yi-fyee-muh-vyich] /grɪˈgɔr i ɪˈfi mə vɪtʃ;; Russian gryɪˈgɔ ryi yɪˈfyi mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1916, Siberian peasant monk who was very influential at the court of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
  • republic — a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
  • repurify — to purify again, make pure again
  • repursue — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
  • rhizopus — any zygomycetous fungus of the genus Rhizopus, esp R. nigricans, a bread mould
  • sandpump — a pump for wet sand
  • sandspur — an American wild grass
  • sapucaia — a Brazilian tree of the genus Lecythis
  • scapular — of or relating to the shoulders or the scapula or scapulae.
  • sea puss — a strong nearshore current resulting from the seaward flow of water, especially through a channel in a bar.
  • serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
  • sholapur — a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.
  • shot put — a field event in which a heavy ball or shot is thrown or put for distance.
  • simpulum — an ancient dipper having the rim of the bowl at right angles to the handle.
  • sinciput — the forepart of the skull.
  • solpugid — sun spider.
  • sourpuss — a person having a grouchy disposition that is often accompanied by a scowling facial expression.
  • spudding — Informal. a potato.
  • spumante — Italian. any sparkling wine.
  • spunware — objects formed by spinning.
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