9-letter words containing a, m, p, y
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- party man — a person belonging to a political party, especially one who adheres strictly or blindly to its principles and policies.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- pilcomayo — a river in S central South America, flowing SE from S Bolivia along the boundary between Paraguay and Argentina to the Paraguay River at Asunción. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
- polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
- polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
- polyamory — the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- polylemma — a debate forcing a choice between contradictory positions
- polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
- pranayama — (in yoga) the art of breath control, practised as an aid to concentration
- primality — the state of being primal
- primarily — essentially; mostly; chiefly; principally: They live primarily from farming.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- pygmalion — Classical Mythology. a sculptor and king of Cyprus who carved an ivory statue of a maiden and fell in love with it. It was brought to life, in response to his prayer, by Aphrodite.
- pyramidal — of, relating to, or shaped like a pyramid: the pyramidal form.
- pyramidon — a pedal organ stop made of wooden pipes in the shape of an inverted pyramid
- pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyromania — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- tampa bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in W Florida. About 27 miles (43 km) long.
- taphonomy — the circumstances and processes of fossilization.
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- tympanist — a person who plays the drums, especially the kettledrums, in an orchestra.
- typomania — an obsession with typology
- vampishly — in a vampish manner