10-letter words starting with pu
- put across — 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 in for — to request or apply for
- put option — put (def 24).
- put to bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- put to sea — the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- put to use — to use; find a use for
- put up for — If you put something up for sale or auction, for example, you make it available to be sold or auctioned.
- put-up job — a plan or an event that has been arranged secretly in order to trick or deceive somebody
- put-you-up — a spare bed with a folding mattress or legs for ease of storage when not in use
- putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- putrescent — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
- putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
- puy lentil — a greyish-green variety of lentil that retains its shape after cooking
- puzzle box — an enclosure, used in experiments in animal learning, from which an animal must escape or in which it must manipulate various devices.
- puzzle jug — a drinking jug of the 17th and 18th centuries, so made as to challenge the drinker to drink without spilling or spraying the contents.
- puzzle out — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- puzzlement — the state of being puzzled; perplexity.
- puzzlingly — in a puzzling manner