10-letter words containing i, y, e
- odorimetry — the measurement of the strength and permanence of odours
- office boy — a person, traditionally a boy, employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
- old bailey — the main criminal court of London, England.
- on liberty — a treatise (1859) by John Stuart Mill on the rights of the individual within the state.
- one-eighty — a turn or reversal of 180 degrees.
- oneirology — The study that relates with dreams.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optatively — In an optative way.
- orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- orientally — In an oriental manner.
- ostensibly — outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- osteolysis — The pathological destruction or disappearance of bone tissue.
- overbuying — Present participle of overbuy.
- overlaying — to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another.
- overmighty — too forceful
- overnicely — in an overnice manner
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- overtimely — untimely
- overwisely — in a pretentiously wise manner
- oxidimetry — a technique of analytical chemistry that utilizes oxidizing agents for titrations.
- oxyneurine — betaine.
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- panegyrize — to deliver or write a panegyric about; eulogize.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
- party time — the season for parties
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pelvimetry — measurement of the diameters of the female pelvis, especially the birth canal.
- penguinery — a group, colony, or enclosure of penguins
- penis envy — the repressed wish of a female to possess a penis.
- penitently — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
- penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- peptolysis — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perikaryal — of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon
- perikaryon — cell body.
- perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- periphyton — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
- perplexity — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.