9-letter words containing a, p, l, y
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cytoplasm — the protoplasm of a cell contained within the cell membrane but excluding the nucleus: contains organelles, vesicles, and other inclusions
- cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
- dalrymple — Sir James, 1st Viscount Stair, 1619–95, Scottish jurist.
- dasypygal — (nonce) Having hairy buttocks.
- davy lamp — an early safety lamp for miners, in which the flame was enclosed by wire gauze as a protection against firedamp
- day pupil — a pupil at a boarding school who attends lessons during the day but does not sleep at the school
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- displayed — (of a bird) represented with wings and legs spread: an eagle displayed.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- dysplasia — abnormal growth or development of cells, tissue, bone, or an organ.
- dyspnoeal — Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea.
- empanoply — to put armour on
- epeolatry — the worship of words
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epochally — In an epochal manner.
- equal pay — the right of a man or woman to receive the same pay as a person of the opposite sex doing the same or similar work for the same or a similar employer
- esemplasy — unification
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- examplary — Obsolete form of exemplary.
- exemplary — Serving as a desirable model; representing the best of its kind.
- fair play — just and honorable treatment, action, or conduct: The political campaign was notably lacking in fair play.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flypapers — Plural form of flypaper.
- foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- hand-play — the practice of fighting with fists
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homotypal — of normal type
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.