Index of English words, starting with "pu"

(1) - Purificator (n.) One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.

(1) - Purifier (n.) One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

(1) - Purify (v. i.) To grow or become pure or clear.
(2) - Purify (v. t.) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
(3) - Purify (v. t.) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
(4) - Purify (v. t.) Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
(5) - Purify (v. t.) To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.

(1) - Purim (n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman.