9-letter words containing g, o, p, y
- long play — a long-playing phonograph record.
- monophagy — The feeding on a single type of food (e.g., a single plant species).
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- nonpaying — Not paying.
- occupying — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- oligopoly — the market condition that exists when there are few sellers, as a result of which they can greatly influence price and other market factors. Compare duopoly, monopoly (def 1).
- ophiology — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- orography — the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
- paedology — the study of the character, growth, and development of children
- paleology — the study of antiquities.
- palillogy — the repetition of a phrase or word
- pantology — a systematic view of all human knowledge.
- parodying — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- partygoer — a person who enjoys or frequently attends parties and celebrations.
- pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
- pathology — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- patrology — Also called patristics. the branch of theology dealing with the teachings of the church fathers.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pestology — the analysis and research of pests and how to get rid of them
- petrology — study of rocks
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phenology — the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
- philogyny — love of or liking for women.
- philology — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytology — botany.
- pistology — the branch of theology dealing with faith.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- plutology — the study of wealth
- poenology — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- poignancy — the state or condition of being poignant.
- poly-drug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- polygamic — polygamous.
- polygenes — multiple factors
- polygenic — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
- polygonal — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polygonum — any polygonaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, having stems with knotlike joints and spikes of small white, green, or pink flowers
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- probingly — with a probing approach