9-letter words containing a, s, u, p
- postulata — things postulated
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- poutassou — a gadoid fish, Micromesistius poutassou, also known as the blue whiting
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- preassure — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- pseudaxis — sympodium.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- 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.
- push back — force to retreat
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- pustulate — to cause to form pustules.
- 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.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- saddle up — horse: put a saddle on
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- sao paulo — a state in S Brazil. 95,714 sq. mi. (247,898 sq. km).
- saphenous — of, relating to, or situated near the saphenous vein.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- sauté pan — a pan used for sautéing food
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.