English words: put straight to puzzleation

300 English words, part 208 of 213 of the words starting with P, A to Z. 23 have a page of their own.

English words put straight to puzzleation

put straight verb: Synonym of set straight.
put that in your hat phrase: Synonym of put that in your pipe and smoke it.
put that in your hat and wear it phrase: Synonym of put that in your pipe and smoke it.
put the arm on someone verb: To demand money from someone.
put the bad mouth on verb: To speak ill of; to vilify.
put the bee on verb: To finish off; to beat.
put the beggar on the gentleman verb: To follow up something good with something inferior.
put the bite on verb: To extort; to demand money from.
put the blame on verb: To blame a particular named person.
put the boot in verb: To kick a fallen opponent.
put the bottom rail on top verb: To reverse a hierarchy.
put the brakes on verb: To stop (an event, action, or process) or to slow it down.
put the cabosh on verb: Alternative form of put the kibosh on.
put the cart before the horse verb: To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential.
put the case verb: To suppose an instance; to take as an example.
put the cat among the pigeons verb: To cause alarm, fuss, or agitation.
put the change on someone verb: To trick or delude someone.
put the clock back verb: To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time, e.g. for the end of daylight saving time.
put the clock forward verb: To change the time in a time zone to a later time.
put the clocks back verb: Alternative form of put the clock back.
put the cork back in the bottle verb: To revert a situation.
put the dead wood on verb: To gain a great advantage over (someone).
put the fear of God into verb: To cause someone to repent through fear of the wrath of God.
put the feedbag on verb: To dine; to eat.
put the finger on verb: Synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”)
put the fries in the bag interjection: Used to express that one does not wish to engage with someone and considers them to be inferior (implying that they are a fast food worker).
put the frighteners on someone verb: To intimidate or coerce someone using threats of violence.
put the genie back in the bottle verb: To revert a situation; to put things back as they were before something (usually an unwelcome thing) became a reality.
put the hammer down verb: To drive quickly; to step on the accelerator.
put the heart across one verb: To give one a sudden fright.
put the heat on verb: Synonym of turn up the heat.
put the herd on someone verb: To attack a person as a group or gang.
put the kibosh on verb: To halt, stop, or squelch.
put the kybosh on verb: Alternative form of put the kibosh on.
put the last hand to verb: To complete; to put the finishing touch to.
put the lid on verb: Alternative form of put a lid on.
put the lie to verb: Synonym of give the lie to.
put the make on verb: To pursue with romantic interest, especially in an aggressive, sexually suggestive manner.
put the miller's eye out verb: To dilute something excessively.
put the moves on verb: To make an effort to gain someone's romantic or sexual interest; to try to woo or seduce.
put the pedal to the metal verb: To press the gas pedal to the maximum extent.
put the plug in the jug verb: To cease drinking alcohol; to become teetotal.
put the pot on verb: To exaggerate.
put the question to verb: To threaten a piece (especially, to threaten a developed bishop by moving a pawn to the third or sixth rank), in such a way that it forces the opponent to...
put the record straight verb: To straighten out or clarify the facts after an inaccurate report
put the saddle on the right horse verb: To assign praise or blame where it is properly due.
put the same shoe on every foot phrase: To attempt to apply a single solution to different problems.
put the screw verb: Alternative form of put the screws.
put the screws verb: To apply pressure and coercion.
put the shoe on the other foot verb: To reverse the roles or positions of two things.
put the squeeze on verb: To put pressure on someone (to do something).
put the stunners on verb: To astonish greatly.
put the tin lid on it verb: To be one final unwelcome event that rounds off a series of problems or misfortunes.
put the toothpaste back in the tube verb: To revert a situation; to put things back as they were before something (usually an unwelcome thing) became a reality.
put the wind up verb: To frighten or disturb.
put the wood in the hole verb: To shut the door.
put the world to rights verb: Alternative form of set the world to rights.
put through noun, verb: To connect (a telephone caller) with the callee.
put through hoops verb: To make (a person) exert great effort to meet requirements, usually arbitrary.
put through the hoops verb: Alternative form of put through hoops.
put through the mangle verb: Synonym of put through the wringer.
put through the mill verb: to be abused or treated very harshly; to suffer intense anguish, stress, or grief.
put through the wringer verb: To interrogate or scrutinize closely; to subject to some trial or ordeal.
put to verb: To ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion.
put to bed verb: To help someone, for example a child, go to bed.
put to bed with a shovel verb: To bury (someone).
put to death verb: To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
put to good account verb: Synonym of turn to good account.
put to good use verb: To make good use of something.
put to lie verb: Synonym of give the lie to.
put to rest verb: To settle or finish, especially a question or discussion.
put to sea verb: To leave a port or harbour on a voyage, or for other purposes such as fishing.
put to shame verb: To humiliate; to disgrace.
put to sleep verb: To cause (someone) to sleep.
put to the blush verb: To cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.
put to the horn verb: To outlaw (a person) by three blasts of the horn at the Cross of Edinburgh.
put to the sword verb: To execute, especially by using a sword.
put to the test verb: To test (something or someone); to evaluate, scrutinize or explore by testing or experimentation.
put to the torch verb: To set on fire.
put to the vote verb: To ask people to vote on a proposal.
put to use verb: To use; to utilise; to apply.
put to words verb: To verbally express, to articulate.
put to work verb: to put to use
put together adjective, noun, verb: To assemble, construct, build, or formulate.
put two and two together verb: To figure something out; to deduce or discern something.
put two and two together and come up with five verb: Alternative form of put two and two together and make five.
put two and two together and make five verb: To come to the wrong conclusion; to make a false inference.
put two fingers up verb: Synonym of stick two fingers up
put under verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, under.
put up adjective, noun, verb: Alternative form of put-up.
put up a brick verb: Taking a bad shot that strongly misses the target and clanks loudly off the rim or backboard.
put up a fight verb: To offer some form of resistance to an attack.
put up a show verb: To do something particularly well or particularly badly.
put-up job noun: An attempt to trick, deceive, or con someone.
put up on verb: To make (someone) aware of or up-to-date on (something).
put up one's dukes verb: To raise one's clenched fists in front of one's body and stand in a threatening or defiant manner, in preparation for a fistfight.
put up one's hand verb: Alternative form of put one's hand up.
put up one's hands verb: Alternative form of put one's hands up.
put up or shut up verb: To desist from saying something unless one is able to prove it; to act in a manner that makes further talk unnecessary.
put up the shutters verb: To bat defensively in the last innings of a match in order to force a draw when winning is not possible.
put up to verb: To encourage or trick (someone) to perform (an action which is foolish or wrong).
put up with verb: To endure, tolerate, suffer through, or allow, especially something annoying.
put upon adjective: Alternative form of put upon.
put words in someone's mouth verb: To say or imply that someone has made a statement or remark which they did not precisely or directly make.
put-you-up noun: A kind of folding bed.
putable adjective, noun: Alternative form of puttable.
putage noun: Prostitution, copulation or lewdness by a woman.
putamen noun: The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit; endocarp.
putamenal adjective: Relating to a putamen
putaminal adjective: Relating to the putamen
putaminous adjective: of or pertaining to the membrana putaminis (inner membrane of egg)
putangitangi noun: Synonym of paradise shelduck.
putanism noun: prostitution; harlotry.
putat noun: The fish poison tree.
putation noun: An act of considering; estimation.
putative adjective /ˈpjuː.tə.tɪv/: Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.
putative marriage noun: A marriage that is invalid because of an impediment or a lack of consent, but was entered into in good faith by at least one of the parties and follows the...
putatively adverb /ˈpjuː.tə.tɪv.li/: In a putative manner; according to belief.
putativeness noun: The quality of being putative.
putaway noun: The process of storing goods in a warehouse etc. as they are received.
putback noun: A move in which a player scores a basket immediately after securing an offensive rebound
putcahs noun: A kind of cotton cloth from India.
putcheon noun: A wire trap for catching salmon.
putcher noun: A fish-trap in the form of a conical basket, traditionally used in parts of Great Britain, where they are set out in rows against the tide.
putchock noun: Alternative form of pachak.
putchuck noun: Alternative form of pachak.
putchuk noun: Alternative form of pachak.
putdown noun: Alternative form of put-down.
putdownable adjective: Alternative form of put-downable.
puteal noun /ˈpjuːti.əl/: An enclosure around a well to prevent people from falling into it.
putelee noun: A large boat for transporting produce.
puteli noun: A princess.
puter noun /ˈpjuː.tə/: Clipping of computer
Puterbaugh proper noun: A surname.
putery noun: prostitution, copulation or sluttiness
Puth proper noun: A surname.
Puthoff proper noun: A surname.
puti noun: The duiker.
Putian proper noun: A prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
putid adjective /ˈpjuːtɪd/: rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless
putidaredoxin noun: An adrenodoxin produced by Pseudomonas putida
putidness noun: The quality of being putid.
Putin proper noun /ˈpuː.tɪn/: Vladimir Putin; Russian president, 2012–current
Putinesque adjective: Reminiscent of the beliefs or policies of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), President of Russia since 2012.
Putinian adjective: Of or relating to Vladimir Putin (born 1952), 2nd and 4th President of Russia.
putinisation noun: The takeover of power via allegedly undemocratic means.
Putinism proper noun: The political policies of Vladimir Putin; the Russian political system during Putin’s tenure in power.
Putinist adjective, noun: A supporter of Putinism.
Putinista noun: Synonym of Putinist (“a supporter or advocate of Vladimir Putin”).
Putinite noun: A supporter of Putin or of his policies.
putinization noun: Alternative spelling of putinisation.
Putinology noun: The study or analysis of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician, president of Russia.
Putinomania noun: The fervent admiration of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
Putinophile noun: A fan or supporter of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
Putinophilia noun: The love or admiration of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.
putlock noun: Alternative form of putlog.
putlog noun: One of the pieces of timber, or metal, on which the planks forming the platform of scaffolding are supported, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold,...
putlog hole noun: A hole made in a wall to accept a putlog.
Putman proper noun: A surname.
Putnam proper noun: A surname.
Putnamian adjective: Of or relating to Hilary Putnam (1926–2016), American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, and a major figure in analytic philosophy in the...
Putney proper noun /ˈpʌtni/: A surname.
putnisite noun: A quartz-like mineral, purple in colour, naturally occurring brittle crystals smaller than 0.5 mm, with an orthorhombic crystalline matrix of...
puto noun /ˈpuːtoʊ/: A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.
putoff noun: An excuse made to delay or stall.
putoid noun: Any scale insect in the family Putoidae.
putois noun: A brush of polecat's hair for painting ceramics.
putonghua noun: Alternative letter-case form of Putonghua.
putoo noun: A Singalese dish made from palmyra-nut meal, scraped coconut, etc.
putoranite noun: An isometric-hexoctahedral brass yellow mineral containing copper, iron, and sulfur.
putout noun: A play in which a batter is retired.
putpocket noun: A person who places money or other items into another person’s pocket or bag without the other’s knowledge, typically as a form of kindness or generosity.
Putrajaya proper noun: A federal territory in western Malaysia.
putranjivaceous adjective: Of or relating to the Putranjivaceae.
putredinous adjective: Resulting from putrefaction, or partaking in the putrefactive process
putrefacient adjective, noun /ˌpjutɹəˈfeɪʃənt/: Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.
putrefactant noun: Any material that causes putrefaction
putrefactible adjective: Susceptible to putrefaction; able to go rotten.
putrefaction noun /ˌpjuːtɹəˈfækʃən/: The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
putrefactive adjective: Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.
putrefactiveness noun: The quality of being putrefactive.
putrefiable adjective: Capable of being putrefied.
putrefier noun: That which putrefies.
putrefy verb /ˈpjutɹəfaɪ/: To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.
putresce verb: To putrefy.
putrescence noun: The condition of being putrid; decay
putrescency noun: Alternative form of putrescence.
putrescene noun: Alternative spelling of putrescine.
putrescent adjective /pjuˈtɹɛsənt/: Becoming putrid; putrefying.
putrescently adverb: In a putrescent manner.
putrescible adjective /pjuːˈtɹɛsɪb(ə)l/: Decomposable; capable of becoming putrescent; rottable.
putrescin noun: Alternative spelling of putrescine.
putrescine noun: A diamine, NH₂(CH₂)₄NH₂ (1,4-diaminobutane or butanediamine), produced by the breakdown of amino acids in living and dead organisms.
putrid adjective /ˈpjuː.tɹɪd/: Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
putrid fever noun: Typhus.
putridity noun: The state of being putrid.
putridly adverb: In a putrid manner.
putridness noun: putridity
putrifacted adjective: putrefied
putrifiable adjective: Alternative form of putrefiable.
putrification noun: putrefaction
putrify verb: Alternative spelling of putrefy.
putrilage noun: Something undergoing, or having undergone putrefaction.
putry adjective /ˈpjuːtɹi/: putrid
putsch noun /pʊt͡ʃ/: A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
putscher noun: Synonym of putschist.
putschism noun: The belief that a revolution should take place by means of a putsch.
putschist noun /ˈpʊtʃɪst/: One who participates in a putsch.
putt noun, verb /pʌt/: The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
putt from the rough verb: To have (usually homosexual) anal sex.
putt-putt noun, verb: Of a motorised vehicle, to move with a repeated emission of small explosive pops from the exhaust.
puttable adjective, noun: Having the right to be sold at a predetermined price.
puttage noun /ˈpʊtɪd͡ʒ/: The putting of questions to a witness during cross-examination in accordance with the Rule in Browne v Dunn, specifically, questions that present a version...
Puttalam proper noun: A town and a district of North Western Province, Sri Lanka.
puttanesca adjective, noun /ˌpʊtəˈnɛskə/: A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples.
puttee noun /ˈpʌtiː/: A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
putteedar noun: Alternative form of pattidar.
Puttenham proper noun: An English surname from placenames.
putter noun, verb /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/: To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
putter about verb: To be engaged in meaningless activity.
putter around verb: To engage in meaningless activity.
putter-on noun: An instigator.
putter up noun: A person who seeks out information of use to burglars, for example by ingratiating himself with the members of a household, and in return receives payment...
putterer noun: A person who putters
puttering noun, verb: The act of one who putters.
putteringly adverb: While puttering; with unhurried activity.
puttie noun: Alternative form of puttee.
puttier adjective, noun: One who putties; a glazier.
puttiless adjective: Alternative form of puttyless.
puttin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of putting.
putting noun, verb /ˈpʊtɪŋ/: Instigation or incitement; enticement.
putting green noun: The area of a golf course nearest the hole, with a smoother surface to make putting easier.
putting stone noun: An early form of shot put.
putto noun /ˈpʊtəʊ/: A representation, especially in Renaissance or Baroque art, of a small, naked, often winged (usually male) child; a cherub.
puttock noun: Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard and marsh harrier
puttocks noun: A small shroud which goes from the shroud of the mainmast, foremast, or mizenmast, to the topmast shrouds
puttogether adjective: Alternative form of put-together.
puttony noun: A wooden or wickerwork basket used, in Hungary, to carry grapes in a vineyard
puttoo noun: A cloth made in Kashmir from the longer and coarser wool of the goat.
puttun noun: A regiment.
putty adjective, noun, verb /ˈpʌti/: A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
putty-hearted adjective: Cowardly; easily swayed.
putty in someone's fingers noun: Synonym of putty in someone's hands.
putty in someone's hands noun: One who is readily manipulated or controlled by another person; a puppet.
putty in the hands of someone noun: Alternative form of putty in someone's hands.
putty knife noun: A hand tool with a flexible blade used by glaziers to apply putty to seal window panes to the frame and mullions.
putty medal noun: A shiny medal awarded for something insignificant.
putty powder noun: putty (an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead, used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc.)
putty-root noun: Alternative form of puttyroot.
putty rubber noun: Synonym of kneaded eraser.
puttyish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of putty.
puttyless adjective: Without putty.
puttylike adjective: Resembling putty or some aspect of it.
puttyroot noun: An American orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) whose slender rootstock produces a solid corm filled with glutinous matter.
puttywalla noun: A messenger or orderly attached to an office, and bearing a belt and brass badge.
puttywallah noun: Alternative form of puttywalla.
putu noun /ˈpʊtʊ/: A form of porridge made from maize meal.
putu piring noun: A Singaporean snack consisting of a ball of steamed rice flour filled with palm sugar.
Putumayo proper noun: A department of Colombia.
Putuo proper noun /putwoʊ/: An island of Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China.
puture noun: Alternative form of pulture.
pututu noun: A conch shell blown like a horn by the Inca.
putwa noun: roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa)
putz noun, verb /pʌts/: A fool, an idiot.
putz around verb: To waste time.
putz round verb: Synonym of putz around
putzite noun: An isometric-hextetrahedral iron black mineral containing copper, germanium, silver, and sulfur.
putzy adjective /ˈpʌtzi/: Like a putz; foolish or obnoxious.
Puuc proper noun: A region in the Mexican state of Yucatán.
puukko noun: A type of sharp, pointed knife of Nordic heritage, with a short blade and flat back; normally worn in a sheath on the waist, and used for woodcrafts or as a...
puupehenone noun: Any of a family of marine sponge metabolites isolated mainly from the orders Verongida and Dictyoceratida.
PUV noun: Initialism of posterior urethral valve.
puwainaphycin noun: Amy of a group of cytotoxic lipopeptides present in some cyanobacteria
puxi noun: The edible larvae of various flies of the genus Ephydra, found in the alkaline lakes of western North America.
puxy noun: Alternative spelling of pucksy.
puy noun /pwiː/: Any of several cone-shaped hills in the Auvergne, France that are the remains of extinct volcanos.
Puy lentil noun: A green lentil of the variety Lens esculenta puyensis.
puya noun: Any of a group of books written in the Old Manipuri language, mostly sacred to Sanamahism.
Puyallup noun /pjuːˈæləp/: A member of a Native American tribe from western Washington state.
Puyang proper noun: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
Puyanic adjective: Of or related to the holy PuYa scriptures of Sanamahism.
Puyuma noun: Puyuma people, an ethnic group in Taiwan
puzzel noun: A harlot; a hussy.
puzzivant verb: Alternative form of pussivant.
puzzle noun, verb /ˈpʌzəl/: The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often...
puzzle box noun: A box that cannot be opened by the usual obvious means, and therefore challenges a person to find the correct way to open it.
puzzle box show noun: A genre of high concept fiction with complex stories and subplots that eventually reveal an underlying mythos.
puzzle canon noun: A canon in which only one voice is notated and the rules for determining the remaining parts and the time intervals of their entrances must be guessed.
puzzle cube noun: A Rubik's cube.
puzzle feeder noun: A domestic animal's toy that dispenses food when a puzzle mechanism is solved.
puzzle game noun: A jigsaw puzzle; a jigsaw (the game).
puzzle jug noun: A trick jug with a perforated neck and hidden tube, designed as a game in which a drinker is challenged to drink its contents without spilling.
puzzle lock noun: A mechanical lock with unusual or hidden mechanics, requiring ingenuity to open.
puzzle-monkey noun: A monkey puzzle tree.
puzzle out verb: To figure out; to discover or find a solution to.
puzzle over verb: To think intensely and deeply about a confusing problem, situation, or question in an effort to understand it or to find a solution.
puzzle-peg noun: A piece of wood secured under a dog's jaw to keep the dog's nose away from the ground so that it uses the scent in the air to track its quarry, and to...
puzzle ring noun: A ring (jewellery item) made up of multiple interconnected bands, capable of being taken apart and reassembled.
puzzle through verb: To work methodically to solve or understand something complex.
puzzleation noun: A puzzled state; a puzzlement.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under P: 63,631 words, in 213 parts.