9-letter words containing c, y, p
- panically — in a panicky manner
- paralytic — a person affected with paralysis.
- parcenary — joint heirship or coheirship; the undivided holding of land by two or more coheirs.
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- pay cable — cable television.
- pay claim — the wage or salary asked for workers by trade union representatives from employers
- pay scale — salary range
- paycheque — a payment for work done
- peaceably — inclined or disposed to avoid strife or dissension; not argumentative or hostile: a peaceable person; a peaceable disposition.
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pelecypod — any mollusk of the class Pelecypoda (Lamellibranchiata), characterized by a bivalve shell enclosing the headless body and lamellate gills, comprising the oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops.
- penitency — the state of being penitent
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pepticity — good digestion
- perfectly — in a perfect manner or to a perfect degree: to sing an aria perfectly.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phenocopy — the observed result of an environmentally induced, nongenetic alteration of a phenotype to a form that resembles the expression of a known genetic mutation.
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- photocopy — a photographic reproduction of a document, print, or the like.
- phycocyan — a type of blue pigment or protein which is found in some algae
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylactic — defending or protecting, especially from disease.
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- physicals — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- physician — a person who is legally qualified to practice medicine; doctor of medicine.
- physicism — the belief in the physical and material world as opposed to the spiritual world in matters of philosophy and religion
- physicist — a scientist who specializes in physics.
- physicked — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- phytocide — a substance or preparation for killing plants.
- picaninny — pickaninny.
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- 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.
- pipe clay — a white, plastic clay used for making clay tobacco pipes or pottery, for whitening leather, etc.
- pipe-clay — to whiten with pipe clay.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
- placidity — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- play back — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- polyconic — pertaining to or utilizing two or more cones.
- polydemic — native to several countries or two or more regions.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- polygenic — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.