9-letter words containing i, s, p, y
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- passingly — in passing; in a passing manner
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- passivity — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
- pastosity — having a heavy impasto.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- pay raise — an increase in wages or salary
- paysagist — a painter of landscapes
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- 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.
- physiqued — having a particular physique
- pig's fry — the heart, liver, lights, and sweetbreads of a pig cooked, esp fried, together
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- piss away — urine.
- piss easy — easily obtained or achieved
- pistology — the branch of theology dealing with faith.
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- plausibly — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- play-list — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
- pollyfish — parrotfish.
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- polyposis — the development of numerous polyps on a hollow internal organ, seen especially in the intestinal tract.
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- polysomic — of, relating to, or designating a basically diploid chromosome complement, in which some but not all the chromosomes are represented more than twice
- pomposity — the quality of being pompous.
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prettyish — quite pretty
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
- psychical — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psychosis — a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
- psychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner