9-letter words containing pu
- puff-puff — a children's name for a steam locomotive or railway train
- puffed up — swollen
- puffed-up — feeling self-important; arrogant; pompous.
- puffingly — in a puffing manner
- puftaloon — a fried scone
- pugginess — stumpiness
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- puh-leeze — a humorous spelling of the emphatic pronunciation of please, suggesting the speaker's exasperation
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pull away — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull back — the act of pulling back, especially a retreat or a strategic withdrawal of troops; pullout.
- pull cord — a cord attached to a blind, light switch, appliance, curtain etc which is pulled to operate it
- pull down — designed to be pulled down for use: a pull-down bed; a desk with a pull-down front.
- pull into — When a vehicle or driver pulls into a place, the vehicle moves into the place and stops there.
- pull over — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pull rank — a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- pull-down — designed to be pulled down for use: a pull-down bed; a desk with a pull-down front.
- pull-ring — a small piece of metal with a ring attached which is pulled to open cans of food, drink, etc
- pullulate — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.
- pulpotomy — the removal of infected portions of the pulp tissue in a tooth, used as a therapeutic measure to avoid pulpectomy.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverous — consisting of tiny particles
- pulvillar — of or relating to a pulvillus
- pulvillus — a soft, padlike structure located at the base of each claw on the feet of certain insects.
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- pulvinule — (at the base of a leafstalk) a small swelling
- pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- pummeling — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- pummelled — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- pump iron — Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- pump room — a room at a spa for drinking mineral waters.
- pumped 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.
- punch out — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punch-out — a small section of cardboard or metal surrounded by perforations so that it can be easily forced out.
- punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.