8-letter words containing o, y, a
- pandowdy — apple pandowdy.
- panofsky — Erwin, 1892–1968, U.S. art historian, born in Germany.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- papagayo — Gulf of, an inlet of the Pacific, on the NW coast of Costa Rica. 15 miles (25 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- paperboy — a youth or man who sells newspapers on the street or delivers them to homes; newsboy.
- paralogy — false reasoning
- paronymy — a play on words
- paroxysm — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- pastorly — of or relating to a pastor
- patronly — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patronym — patronymic (defs 3, 4).
- pay down — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- pay zone — A pay zone is a reservoir or part of a reservoir that contains hydrocarbons that can be extracted economically.
- payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- peacocky — of or resembling a peacock; ostentatious
- pedagogy — the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- platypod — Also, platypodous [pluh-tip-uh-duh s] /pləˈtɪp ə dəs/ (Show IPA). having a broad foot, as certain gastropod mollusks.
- play box — a box for a child's toys and personal things
- play for — sport: represent, be on the side of
- play god — make life-and-death decisions
- play off — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play out — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- play-off — (in competitive sports) the playing of an extra game, rounds, innings, etc., in order to settle a tie.
- playbook — (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.
- playdown — a play-off.
- playgoer — a person who attends the theater often or habitually.
- playroom — a room set aside for children's play or adult recreation.
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- polarity — Physics. the property or characteristic that produces unequal physical effects at different points in a body or system, as a magnet or storage battery. the positive or negative state in which a body reacts to a magnetic, electric, or other field.
- poly bag — a polythene bag, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- polyacid — having more than one replaceable hydrogen atom.
- polyadic — (of a relation, operation, etc) having several argument places, as … moves … from … to …, which might be represented as Mpox1y1z1t1x2y2z2t2 where p names a person, o an object, and each t a time, and each <x,y,z> the coordinates of a place
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- polyaxon — a nerve cell with multiple branches
- polycarp — Saint, a.d. 69?–155, bishop of Smyrna and a Christian martyr.
- polyclad — any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
- polyfoam — a rigid, semirigid, or rubbery foam composed of minute bubbles of air or carbon dioxide embedded in a polymer matrix, often polyurethane: used in mattresses, padding, insulation, etc.
- polygala — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygamy — the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. Compare bigamy (def 1), monogamy (def 1).
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polypary — the common supporting structure of a colony of polyps, as corals.
- polypnea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- polyxena — a daughter of King Priam of Troy, who was sacrificed on the command of Achilles' ghost
- polyzoan — bryozoan
- ponytail — an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely.
- popinjay — a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle