9-letter words containing p, a, r, t, y
- operatory — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- palpatory — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- pantryman — a person who works in or has charge of a pantry, as aboard ship or in a hospital.
- paralytic — a person affected with paralysis.
- parhypate — a note in ancient Greek music, the second lowest note in the two lowest tetrachords
- parquetry — mosaic work of wood used for floors, wainscoting, etc.; marquetry.
- partially — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- party hat — a hat, often made of paper, worn at a party
- party man — a person belonging to a political party, especially one who adheres strictly or blindly to its principles and policies.
- partygoer — a person who enjoys or frequently attends parties and celebrations.
- paternity — the state of being a father; fatherhood.
- patriliny — the tracing of descent exclusively through the male members of a family.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- patrology — Also called patristics. the branch of theology dealing with the teachings of the church fathers.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- pituitary — pituitary gland.
- placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- plurality — the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate (distinguished from majority).
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- portrayal — the act of portraying.
- portrayed — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- portrayer — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- pothecary — apothecary.
- pourparty — purparty.
- precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
- prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- primality — the state of being primal
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- procacity — insolence
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prokaryot — any organism having cells in each of which the genetic material is in a single DNA chain, not enclosed in a nucleus
- proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property