9-letter words containing p, a, r, y
- payroller — a wage earner, especially a government employee.
- peak year — a year when something reaches its point of greatest development, strength, etc
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pep rally — a meeting, especially of students before an interscholastic athletic contest, to stimulate group enthusiasm by rousing talks, songs, cheers, etc.
- perikarya — parts of nerve cells that contain the nuclei
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- perorally — through or via the mouth
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- 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.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- 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.
- pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
- 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.
- play fair — games: be sporting
- play park — A play park is a children's playground.
- playgroup — a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- 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).
- polyamory — the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
- polyandry — the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Compare monandry (def 1).
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- polyzoary — a colony of bryozoan animals
- popularly — by the people as a whole; generally; widely: a fictitious story popularly accepted as true.
- porphyria — a defect of blood pigment metabolism in which porphyrins are produced in excess, are present in the blood, and are found in the urine.
- 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.
- powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
- pranayama — (in yoga) the art of breath control, practised as an aid to concentration
- prayerful — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- pre-essay — a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
- pre-ready — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.