| put | (noun) the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date | Synonyms: put option |
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| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, order, set up |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: place, set |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set |
| (verb) cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation | - |
| (verb) adapt | - |
| (verb) cause (someone) to undergo something | - |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, place |
| putamen | (noun) the outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus | - |
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| putative | (adjective) purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds | - |
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| putdownable | (adjective) (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining | - |
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| putoff | (noun) a pretext for delay or inaction | - |
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| putout | (noun) an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout) | - |
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| putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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| putrefaction | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity |
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| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, rot, rotting |
| (noun) a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor | Synonyms: rot |
| putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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| putrefiable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrescible, spoilable |
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| putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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| putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| putrescine | (noun) a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter | - |
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| putrid | (adjective) of or relating to or attended by putrefaction | - |
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| (adjective) morally corrupt or evil | - |
| (adjective) in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | - |
| putridity | (noun) the state of being putrid | - |
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| putridness | (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putrescence, rottenness |
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| putsch | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, takeover |
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| putt | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putting |
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| (verb) strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter | - |
| (verb) hit a putt | - |
| puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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| putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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| (noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
| (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| putty | (noun) a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass | - |
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| (verb) apply putty in order to fix or fill | - |
| puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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| putz | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot | - |