Index of English words, starting with "pu"

(1) - Purpura (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.
(2) - Purpura (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.

(1) - Purpuric (a.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.
(2) - Purpuric (a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.

(1) - Purpurin (n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

(1) - Purr (n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.
(2) - Purr (v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur.