8-letter words containing e, p, a, y
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- peaberry — a single seed coffee berry; a round coffee bean
- peacocky — of or resembling a peacock; ostentatious
- pearleye — any of several deep-sea fishes of the family Scopelarchidae, having large, hooked teeth on the tongue, telescopic eyes, and an iridescent patch on each eye tube.
- peasanty — having qualities ascribed to traditional country life or people; simple or unsophisticated
- peccancy — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- pedantry — the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
- penality — of, relating to, or involving punishment, as for crimes or offenses.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- petabyte — 2 50 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pipeclay — a fine, white clay used for making tobacco pipes, whitening parts of military or other dress, etc.
- playable — capable of or suitable for being played.
- playdate — a gathering of children at a house for play
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playless — having no play
- playmate — a companion, especially of a child, in play or recreation.
- playtime — time for play or recreation.
- playwear — playclothes.
- plenarty — the state of an endowed church office when occupied
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- pratyeka — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.
- preapply — to apply beforehand
- psaltery — an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
- pterylae — one of the feathered areas on the skin of a bird.
- ptyalize — to induce the flow of saliva
- pygmaean — pygmy (defs 6, 7).
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyranose — any monosaccharide having a pyran ring structure.
- pyrazole — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and two double bonds in the ring.
- pyrenean — of or relating to the Pyrenees or their inhabitants
- pyruvate — an ester or salt of pyruvic acid.
- re-apply — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- repacify — to pacify again
- roleplay — to assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), especially in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction: Management trainees were given a chance to role-play labor negotiators.
- samplery — the making of samplers
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- sepalody — the changing of other flower parts, such as petals, into sepals
- sex play — erotic caressing, especially as a prelude to sexual intercourse; foreplay.
- skyscape — a section or portion of the sky, usually extensive and often including part of the horizon, that may be seen from a single viewpoint.
- sparsely — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- speedway — a town in central Indiana.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- spyplane — a military aeroplane used to spy on an enemy