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8-letter words containing o, p, y

  • porously — full of pores.
  • porphyry — a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.
  • porridgy — resembling the taste, texture, or appearance of porridge
  • portably — capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
  • porterly — pertaining to or characteristic of a porter
  • posingly — in a posing manner
  • posology — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the determination of dosage.
  • possibly — perhaps; maybe: It may possibly rain today.
  • post-boy — (formerly) a boy or man who rode post or carried mail.
  • postsync — postsynchronization
  • potatory — of, relating to, or given to drinking.
  • potbelly — a distended or protuberant belly.
  • potently — powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force.
  • poyntell — a pavement of tile mosaic forming an abstract design.
  • poyntill — pointel.
  • primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
  • priority — the state or quality of being earlier in time, occurrence, etc.
  • privy to — knowing: sth confidential
  • probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.
  • promptly — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
  • propenyl — containing the propenyl group.
  • properly — adapted or appropriate to the purpose or circumstances; fit; suitable: the proper time to plant strawberries.
  • property — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
  • prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
  • prophesy — to foretell or predict.
  • prophyll — one of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow
  • propylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the propyl group.
  • propylon — propylaeum.
  • prostyle — (of a classical temple) having a portico on the front with the columns in front of the antae.
  • provably — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
  • psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
  • psychol. — psychological
  • psychro- — cold
  • puppydom — the state of being a puppy
  • purveyor — a person who purveys, provides, or supplies: a purveyor of foods; a purveyor of lies.
  • putumayo — a river in NW South America, flowing SE from S Colombia into the Amazon in NW Brazil. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
  • pycnosis — the reduction in size and increase in staining of a cell or its nucleus, usually a feature of cell degeneration
  • pycnotic — relating to a theory which holds that matter formation occurred as a result of ether condensation
  • pyinkado — a leguminous tree, Xylia xylocarpa (or dolabriformis), native to India and Myanmar
  • pyknosis — a process of thickening, esp. in the shrinking nucleus of a degenerating cell
  • pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
  • pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
  • pyonings — the work of military sappers, such as the digging of trenches
  • pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
  • pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
  • 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.
  • pyrenoid — a spherical protein structure found within chloroplasts of certain algae and hornworts.
  • pyriform — pear-shaped.
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