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.