7-letter words containing o, p, y
- polygon — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polymer — a compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller molecules, as polyethylene, or by the condensation of many smaller molecules with the elimination of water, alcohol, or the like, as nylon.
- polynya — an area of unfrozen sea water surrounded by ice.
- polyoma — a type of tumour caused by a virus
- polyped — a being or object having many legs: Her favorite toy is a bug-shaped polyped.
- polypod — (of insect larvae) having many feet.
- polyzoa — Bryozoa.
- pomeroy — a variety of dessert apple
- pony up — a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- poovery — male homosexuality
- pop fly — a high fly ball hit to the infield or immediately beyond it that can easily be caught before reaching the ground.
- popayan — a city in SW Colombia.
- popeyed — marked by bulging, staring eyes: a young boy popeyed with excitement.
- portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- possy's — possie.
- postboy — (formerly) a boy or man who rode post or carried mail.
- potency — the state or quality of being potent.
- pothery — humid; stuffy
- pottery — ceramic ware, especially earthenware and stoneware.
- pouilly — a village in central France: known for its wines.
- poultry — domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
- poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
- powdery — consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
- pozsony — Hungarian name of Bratislava.
- prey on — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- priorly — preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous: A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.
- probity — integrity and uprightness; honesty.
- procyon — a first-magnitude star in the constellation Canis Minor.
- prodigy — a person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability: a musical prodigy.
- progeny — a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
- propyla — plural of propylon.
- prosify — to write or make into prose (esp of a dull nature)
- prosody — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- protyle — a hypothetical primitive substance from which the chemical elements were supposed to have been formed
- proudly — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- psycho- — Psycho- is added to words in order to form other words which describe or refer to things connected with the mind or with mental processes.
- ptolemy — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- pye-dog — an ownerless half-wild dog of uncertain breeding, common in the villages and towns of India and other countries in east and south Asia.
- pygmoid — a pygmy
- pyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pylorus — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- pynchon — Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.
- pyrogen — a substance, as a thermostable bacterial toxin, that produces a rise in temperature in a human or animal.
- pyronin — either of two synthetic red xanthene dyes, pyronin G or Y and pyronin B, used chiefly as microscopic stains
- pyrosis — heartburn (def 1).
- pyrrole — a colorless, toxic, liquid, five-membered ring compound, C 4 H 5 N, that is a component of chlorophyll, hemin, and many other important naturally occurring substances.
- pythons — a large dragon who guarded the chasm at Delphi from which prophetic vapors emerged. He was finally killed by Apollo, who established his oracle on the site.
- ropeway — tramway (def 4).
- roupily — in a roupy manner
- shipboy — ship's boy.