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9-letter words containing d, e, p, y

  • gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
  • gypsyweed — Speedwell, Veronica officinalis.
  • hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
  • heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
  • hyde park — a public park in London, England.
  • hyperacid — Highly acidic.
  • hyperarid — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
  • hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
  • hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
  • hypodense — Less dense (than normal).
  • hypoderma — hypodermis.
  • impliedly — involved, indicated, or suggested without being directly or explicitly stated; tacitly understood: an implied rebuke; an implied compliment.
  • impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
  • indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
  • lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
  • md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
  • medalplay — (in golf) scoring system in which the score is based on the total number of strokes taken
  • misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
  • monkeypod — a tropical American tree, Samanea saman, of the legume family, having spreading branches and dense heads of small, pink flowers.
  • oedipally — in an oedipal manner
  • open-eyed — having the eyes open.
  • orphreyed — embroidered with gold
  • orthopedy — Archaic form of orthopedics.
  • outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
  • pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
  • paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
  • paralysed — unable to move and with no feeling
  • paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
  • parchedly — in a parched manner
  • parsleyed — cooked with or sprinkled with parsley
  • pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
  • payloader — a heavy, wheeled vehicle with a large, movable blade or scoop at the front.
  • payrolled — a list of employees to be paid, with the amount due to each.
  • pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
  • 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.
  • pendantly — in the shape or manner of a pendant
  • pennyland — in Caithness and the Orkney and Shetland islands a piece of land on which one penny's worth of tax was owed to the overlord
  • pentapody — a measure consisting of five feet.
  • physicked — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
  • physiqued — having a particular physique
  • phytocide — a substance or preparation for killing plants.
  • play date — an appointment made by several parents to have their young children play together.
  • playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
  • pointedly — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
  • polydemic — native to several countries or two or more regions.
  • polyimide — any of a class of polymers with an imido group: resistant to high temperatures, wear, radiation, and many chemicals.
  • poppy red — poppy (def 4).
  • poppyhead — a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
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