9-letter words starting with pu
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purloined — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purloiner — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
- purported — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- purpureal — having a purple colour
- purringly — in a purring manner
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- purulence — pus.
- push back — force to retreat
- push bike — A push bike is a bicycle which you move by turning the pedals with your feet.
- push over — shove to the ground
- push poll — a seemingly unbiased telephone survey that is actually conducted by supporters of a particular candidate and disseminates negative information about an opponent.
- push shot — Basketball. a shot with one hand from a point relatively distant from the basket, in which a player shoots the ball from shoulder level or above.
- push-bike — a standard bicycle, operated by pedals rather than a motor.
- push-card — punchboard.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- push-pull — Radio. a two-tube symmetrical arrangement in which the grid excitation voltages are opposite in phase.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pushfully — in a pushful manner
- pushiness — obnoxiously forward or self-assertive.
- puss moth — a large pale prominent moth, Cerura vinula, whose larvae feed on willow and poplar, and are bright green with a masklike red head and claspers modified as "tails" that are protruded and raised in a state of alarm: family Notodontidae
- pussyfoot — to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
- pussytoes — any of various woolly plants of the genus Antennaria
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- pustulate — to cause to form pustules.
- pustulous — pustular.
- put about — 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 ahead — to reset the hands of (a clock) to a later time
- put aside — 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 forth — 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 it on — to make a pretentious show; pretend or exaggerate
- put it to — 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 on to — put in touch with
- put right — rectify
- put to it — to place in a difficult situation; press hard
- put up on — imposed upon; ill-used.
- put up to — If you put someone up to something wrong or foolish or something which they would not normally do, you suggest that they do it and you encourage them to do it.
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- putrajaya — officially the capital of Malaysia since 1999, in the SW Malay Peninsula, and forming its own federal territory; a high-tech garden city (including nearby Cyberjaya); construction began in 1995 and is expected to be complete in about 2010, with a planned population of over 300 000; government functions transferred in stages from Kuala Lumpur, starting in 1999
- putridity — in a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- putschist — a participant in a putsch.
- putt-putt — Informal. to operate with sounds suggesting a put-put, as a small motor or motor-driven device.