Words Starting With PU
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter PU. This section showcases how PU at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with PU, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
3 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| put | 5 | attribute or give | She put too much emphasis on her the last statement |
| pub | 7 | tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals | - |
| pup | 7 | an inexperienced young person | - |
| pun | 5 | a humorous play on words | I do it for the pun of it |
| pus | 5 | a fluid product of inflammation | - |
| pug | 6 | small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle | - |
| pud | 6 | (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | - |
| pur | 5 | - | - |
| pul | 5 | 100 puls equal 1 afghani in Afghanistan | - |
| puh | 8 | - | - |
| puy | 8 | - | - |
4 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| pull | 6 | strip of feathers | pull a chicken |
| push | 9 | press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action | He pushed her to finish her doctorate |
| pure | 6 | without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | pure folly |
| punk | 10 | rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock | - |
| pump | 10 | the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | - |
| puke | 10 | the matter ejected in vomiting | - |
| puff | 12 | suck in or take (air) | - |
| pulp | 8 | an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper | - |
| puck | 12 | a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey | - |
| puss | 6 | informal terms referring to a domestic cat | - |
| puri | 6 | - | - |
| puma | 8 | large American feline resembling a lion | - |
| puny | 9 | (used especially of persons) of inferior size | - |
| putt | 6 | hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | his putting let him down today; he didn't sink a single putt over three feet |
| putz | 15 | obscene terms for penis | - |
| purr | 6 | make a soft swishing sound | the car engine purred |
| puja | 13 | - | - |
| punt | 6 | (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground | the punt traveled 50 yards |
| pula | 6 | the basic unit of money in Botswana | - |
| pung | 7 | a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners | - |
| pupa | 8 | an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult | - |
| puka | 10 | small roundheaded New Zealand tree having large resinous leaves and panicles of green-white flowers | - |
| pulu | 6 | - | - |
| purl | 6 | flow in a circular current, of liquids | - |
| puce | 8 | a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red | - |
| pule | 6 | cry weakly or softly | - |
| pube | 8 | - | - |
| pubs | 8 | - | - |
| puds | 7 | - | - |
| pudu | 7 | - | - |
| puer | 6 | - | - |
| pugh | 10 | - | - |
| pugs | 7 | - | - |
| puha | 9 | - | - |
| puir | 6 | - | - |
| puku | 10 | an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck | - |
| puky | 13 | - | - |
| puli | 6 | - | - |
| pulk | 10 | - | - |
| puls | 6 | - | - |
| puly | 9 | - | - |
| pumy | 11 | - | - |
| puna | 6 | - | - |
| puns | 6 | - | - |
| pups | 8 | - | - |
| pupu | 8 | - | - |
| purs | 6 | - | - |
| puts | 6 | - | - |
| puys | 9 | - | - |
5 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| pussy | 10 | containing pus | - |
| punch | 12 | a tool for making holes or indentations | - |
| purse | 7 | gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | purse ones's lips |
| pulse | 7 | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | - |
| puppy | 14 | an inexperienced young person | - |
| punks | 11 | a youth subculture closely associated with punk rock music in the late 1970s; in part a reaction to the hippy subculture; dress was optional but intended to shock (plastic garbage bags or old school uniforms) and hair was dyed in bright colors (in Mohican haircuts or sometimes spiked in bright plumes) | - |
| pupil | 9 | a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | - |
| pubic | 11 | relating or near the pubis | pubic bones |
| pushy | 13 | marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | - |
| puffy | 16 | abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids |
| purge | 8 | an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | - |
| pubes | 9 | the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | - |
| putty | 10 | a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass | - |
| purim | 9 | (Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman | - |
| puree | 7 | rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender | puree the vegetables for the baby |
| pudgy | 12 | short and plump | - |
| purer | 7 | - | - |
| puggy | 12 | - | - |
| pubis | 9 | one of the three sections of the hipbone; together these two bones form the front of the pelvis | - |
| punky | 14 | minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects | - |
| pudge | 9 | a short fat person | - |
| pulpy | 12 | like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | - |
| pukka | 15 | absolutely first class and genuine | pukka sahib |
| pubco | 11 | - | - |
| pucan | 9 | - | - |
| pucer | 9 | - | - |
| puces | 9 | - | - |
| pucka | 13 | absolutely first class and genuine | - |
| pucks | 13 | - | - |
| puddy | 12 | - | - |
| pudic | 10 | - | - |
| pudor | 8 | - | - |
| pudsy | 11 | - | - |
| pudus | 8 | - | - |
| puers | 7 | - | - |
| puffa | 13 | - | - |
| puffs | 13 | - | - |
| pugil | 8 | - | - |
| puhas | 10 | - | - |
| pujah | 17 | - | - |
| pujas | 14 | - | - |
| pukas | 11 | - | - |
| puked | 12 | - | - |
| puker | 11 | - | - |
| pukes | 11 | - | - |
| pukey | 14 | - | - |
| pukus | 11 | - | - |
| pulao | 7 | - | - |
| pulas | 7 | - | - |
| puled | 8 | - | - |
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6 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| public | 12 | people in general considered as a whole | he is a hero in the eyes of the public |
| pushed | 12 | - | - |
| punish | 11 | impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | we had to punish the dog for soiling the floor again |
| purple | 10 | a purple color or pigment | - |
| puppet | 12 | a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | - |
| puzzle | 26 | be a mystery or bewildering to | - |
| pursue | 8 | carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | She pursued many activities |
| purely | 11 | restricted to something | - |
| purity | 11 | the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | - |
| pumped | 13 | tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline | we were really pumped up for the race |
| puddle | 10 | eliminate urine | - |
| puking | 13 | the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | - |
| purify | 14 | remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | purify the water |
| pusher | 11 | a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes | - |
| purest | 8 | - | - |
| pundit | 9 | someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | - |
| puffed | 15 | gathered for protruding fullness | - |
| putter | 8 | work lightly | - |
| pulpit | 10 | a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | - |
| pulley | 11 | a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | - |
| putrid | 9 | in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | horrible like raw and putrid flesh |
| pucker | 14 | to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | She puckered her lips |
| pummel | 12 | strike, usually with the fist | The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators |
| punter | 8 | someone who bets | - |
| punchy | 16 | - | - |
| puffer | 14 | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | - |
| puller | 8 | someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | - |
| pueblo | 10 | a city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs | - |
| purser | 8 | an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare | - |
| purist | 8 | someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) | - |
| putsch | 13 | a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | - |
| puffin | 14 | any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills | - |
| pulsar | 8 | a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation | - |
| pulque | 17 | fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey | - |
| purana | 8 | a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances | - |
| pumice | 12 | a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive | - |
| purdah | 12 | a state of social isolation | - |
| punnet | 8 | a small light basket used as a measure for fruits | - |
| pubbed | 13 | - | - |
| pubcos | 12 | - | - |
| pucans | 10 | - | - |
| pucest | 10 | - | - |
| pucked | 15 | - | - |
| puckle | 14 | - | - |
| pudden | 10 | - | - |
| pudder | 10 | - | - |
| puddly | 13 | - | - |
| pudent | 9 | - | - |
| pudeur | 9 | - | - |
| pudges | 10 | - | - |
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7 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| putting | 10 | hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | his putting let him down today; he didn't sink a single putt over three feet |
| purpose | 11 | reach a decision | - |
| pulling | 10 | the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | his strenuous pulling strained his back |
| pushing | 13 | the act of applying force in order to move something away | the pushing is good exercise |
| publish | 14 | put into print | The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce |
| pumpkin | 17 | a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes | - |
| pudding | 12 | (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | - |
| pursuit | 9 | a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits |
| pumping | 14 | - | - |
| pussies | 9 | - | - |
| pursued | 10 | a person who is being chased | the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued |
| puberty | 14 | the time of life when sex glands become functional | - |
| puzzled | 28 | filled with bewilderment | puzzled that she left without saying goodbye |
| pulsing | 10 | (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | - |
| puffing | 16 | an act of forcible exhalation | - |
| pungent | 10 | capable of wounding | pungent satire |
| puncher | 14 | a tool for making holes or indentations | - |
| purging | 11 | an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | - |
| puritan | 9 | a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | - |
| puerile | 9 | displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | puerile jokes |
| pullman | 11 | luxurious passenger car; for day or night travel | - |
| purview | 15 | the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | - |
| pursuer | 9 | a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture | always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers |
| pullout | 9 | to break off a military action with an enemy | - |
| purport | 11 | the pervading meaning or tenor | - |
| punting | 10 | (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground | punting is an important part of the game |
| pulsate | 9 | produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses | - |
| pustule | 9 | a small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus | - |
| puzzler | 27 | a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | that's a real puzzler |
| pushier | 12 | - | - |
| purpura | 11 | any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding | - |
| puttied | 10 | - | - |
| pubbing | 14 | - | - |
| puberal | 11 | - | - |
| pubises | 11 | - | - |
| publics | 13 | - | - |
| puccoon | 13 | perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | - |
| pucelle | 11 | - | - |
| puckers | 15 | - | - |
| puckery | 18 | - | - |
| pucking | 16 | - | - |
| puckish | 18 | naughtily or annoyingly playful | - |
| puckles | 15 | - | - |
| puckout | 15 | - | - |
| puddens | 11 | - | - |
| pudders | 11 | - | - |
| puddier | 11 | - | - |
| puddies | 11 | - | - |
| puddled | 12 | - | - |
| puddler | 11 | a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling | - |
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8 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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| punished | 14 | subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) | - |
| purchase | 15 | the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | - |
| pursuing | 11 | following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit | the fox fled from the pursuing hounds |
| publicly | 17 | in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly | she admitted publicly to being a communist |
| pussycat | 15 | informal terms referring to a domestic cat | - |
| punctual | 12 | acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed | she expected guests to be punctual at meals |
| puncture | 12 | reduce or lessen the size or importance of | - |
| purified | 14 | - | - |
| pushover | 16 | any undertaking that is easy to do | - |
| puzzling | 29 | not clear to the understanding | - |
| punitive | 13 | inflicting punishment | punitive justice |
| pullover | 13 | a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | - |
| punisher | 13 | - | - |
| purifier | 13 | an apparatus for removing impurities | - |
| pursuant | 10 | (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | pursuant to our agreement |
| purebred | 13 | a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | - |
| pummeled | 15 | - | - |
| puppetry | 17 | a stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets) | - |
| puffball | 18 | any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | - |
| publican | 14 | the keeper of a public house | - |
| purveyor | 16 | someone who supplies provisions (especially food) | - |
| pureness | 10 | the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | - |
| purulent | 10 | containing pus | a purulent wound |
| pugilist | 11 | someone who fights with his fists for sport | - |
| purplish | 15 | of a color intermediate between red and blue | - |
| purposed | 13 | - | - |
| pushcart | 15 | wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | their pushcart was piled high with groceries |
| pugilism | 13 | fighting with the fists | - |
| putative | 13 | purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds | the foundling's putative father |
| puissant | 10 | powerful | - |
| pullback | 18 | a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks |
| pulsated | 11 | - | - |
| puncheon | 15 | - | - |
| puniness | 10 | the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | - |
| pubbings | 15 | - | - |
| pubertal | 12 | of or related to puberty | - |
| puccoons | 14 | - | - |
| pucelage | 13 | - | - |
| pucelles | 12 | - | - |
| puckered | 17 | - | - |
| puckerer | 16 | - | - |
| puckfist | 19 | - | - |
| puckouts | 16 | - | - |
| puckster | 16 | - | - |
| puddered | 13 | - | - |
| puddiest | 12 | - | - |
| puddings | 13 | - | - |
| puddingy | 16 | - | - |
| puddlers | 12 | - | - |
| puddlier | 12 | - | - |
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9 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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| published | 17 | formally made public | published accounts |
| publicity | 18 | a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | - |
| publisher | 16 | a firm in the publishing business | - |
| punishing | 15 | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | set a punishing pace |
| purgatory | 15 | a temporary condition of torment or suffering | a purgatory of drug abuse |
| purposely | 16 | with intention; in an intentional manner | - |
| punctured | 14 | having a hole cut through | a punctured balloon |
| publicist | 15 | someone who publicizes | - |
| pulmonary | 16 | relating to or affecting the lungs | pulmonary disease |
| puppeteer | 15 | one who operates puppets or marionettes | - |
| purifying | 18 | acting like an antiseptic | - |
| pulsating | 12 | - | - |
| publicize | 24 | call attention to | - |
| pulverize | 23 | destroy completely | - |
| pubescent | 15 | covered with fine soft hairs or down | - |
| pushchair | 19 | a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | - |
| purchaser | 16 | a person who buys | - |
| publicise | 15 | call attention to | - |
| punctuate | 13 | to stress, single out as important | - |
| purgative | 15 | strongly laxative | - |
| putrefied | 15 | - | - |
| puffiness | 17 | an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | - |
| pussyfoot | 17 | to go stealthily or furtively | - |
| pupillary | 16 | of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
| pulsation | 11 | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | - |
| pummeling | 16 | - | - |
| puerility | 14 | a property characteristic of a child | - |
| puberties | 13 | - | - |
| publicans | 15 | - | - |
| publishes | 16 | - | - |
| pucelages | 14 | - | - |
| puckerers | 17 | - | - |
| puckerier | 17 | - | - |
| puckeries | 17 | - | - |
| puckering | 18 | - | - |
| puckerood | 18 | - | - |
| puckfists | 20 | - | - |
| puckishly | 23 | in an appealing but bold manner | - |
| pucksters | 17 | - | - |
| puddening | 14 | - | - |
| puddering | 14 | - | - |
| puddliest | 13 | - | - |
| puddlings | 14 | - | - |
| pudencies | 14 | - | - |
| pudendous | 13 | - | - |
| pudginess | 13 | the property of having a plump and round body | - |
| puerilely | 14 | - | - |
| puerilism | 13 | - | - |
| puerperae | 13 | - | - |
| puerperal | 13 | relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth | - |
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10 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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| punishment | 17 | the act of punishing | - |
| publishing | 18 | the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | - |
| purchasing | 18 | the act of buying | shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge |
| punishable | 17 | (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | - |
| pulverized | 25 | consisting of fine particles | pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding |
| publicized | 26 | made known; especially made widely known | - |
| purposeful | 17 | having meaning through having an aim | led a happy purposeful life |
| puncturing | 15 | - | - |
| pugnacious | 15 | ready and able to resort to force or violence | pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance |
| pulverised | 16 | consisting of fine particles | - |
| punctually | 17 | at the expected or proper time | - |
| publically | 19 | in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly | - |
| publicised | 17 | made known; especially made widely known | - |
| pugilistic | 15 | of or relating to pugilism or pugilists | a pugilistic career |
| puritanism | 14 | strictness and austerity in conduct and religion | - |
| putrefying | 19 | - | - |
| pubcrawler | 19 | - | - |
| puberulent | 14 | covered with fine soft hairs or down | - |
| puberulous | 14 | - | - |
| pubescence | 18 | the time of life when sex glands become functional | - |
| publicises | 16 | - | - |
| publicists | 16 | - | - |
| publicizes | 25 | - | - |
| publicness | 16 | - | - |
| publishers | 17 | - | - |
| puckeriest | 18 | - | - |
| puckerooed | 19 | - | - |
| puddenings | 15 | - | - |
| puddingier | 15 | - | - |
| pudicities | 15 | - | - |
| puerilisms | 14 | - | - |
| puerperium | 16 | time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved | a perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium |
| pufferfish | 24 | any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | - |
| puftaloons | 15 | - | - |
| puissances | 14 | - | - |
| puissantly | 15 | - | - |
| puissaunce | 14 | - | - |
| pullulated | 13 | - | - |
| pullulates | 12 | - | - |
| pulmonates | 14 | - | - |
| pulpboards | 17 | - | - |
| pulpifying | 21 | - | - |
| pulpiteers | 14 | - | - |
| pulpitries | 14 | - | - |
| pulpstones | 14 | - | - |
| pulsatance | 14 | - | - |
| pulsatilla | 12 | includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers | - |
| pulsations | 12 | - | - |
| pulsebeats | 14 | - | - |
| pulsimeter | 14 | - | - |
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