8-letter words starting with pu
- pulpitry — the art of delivering sermons
- pulpitum — (in many cathedrals and large churches) a stone screen which divides the nave and the choir, often supporting a gallery or loft
- pulpless — the soft, juicy, edible part of a fruit.
- pulpmill — a mill making pulp for paper
- pulpwood — spruce or other soft wood suitable for making paper.
- pulsator — something that pulsates, beats, or throbs.
- pulsejet — a jet engine equipped with valves that continuously open to admit air, then close during combustion, giving a pulsating thrust: used to power the V-1, a German buzz bomb, in World War II.
- pulsific — causing the pulse to increase
- pulvilio — a perfumed powder
- pulvinar — a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god. a cushioned seat at a circus.
- pulvinus — Botany. a cushionlike swelling at the base of a leaf or leaflet, at the point of junction with the axis.
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- pumicite — a fine-grained pumice-like volcanic ash
- pummeled — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- pump box — a chamber of a pump in which a piston operates.
- pump gun — a shotgun or rifle having a pump-action mechanism.
- pump out — emit, produce
- pumphood — a cover for the upper wheel of a chain pump
- pumpking — pumpkin
- pumpless — having no pump
- pumplike — resembling a pump
- punaluan — relating to punalua
- punch in — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punch up — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punch-up — punch-out (def 2).
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punching — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- punctate — marked with points or dots; having minute spots or depressions.
- punctual — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- punctule — a very small opening
- puncture — the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object.
- punditic — of or relating to pundits
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- pundonor — a point of honour
- pungency — sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
- puniness — puny quality or condition
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- punition — punishment.
- punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- puntsman — a man in charge of a river punt
- pup tent — shelter tent.
- puparium — a hard barrel-shaped case enclosing the pupae of the housefly and other dipterous insects
- pupation — to become a pupa.
- pupilage — the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.
- pupillar — of or relating to a pupil or a legal ward
- puppetry — the art of making puppets or presenting puppet shows.
- puppydom — the state of being a puppy