10-letter words containing p, a, r, y
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- carpellary — (botany) Of or pertaining to carpels.
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- copartnery — copartnership
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depravedly — in a depraved manner
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs