9-letter words containing p, a, y, t
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hypanthia — Plural form of hypanthium.
- hypaspist — a shield bearer, especially one of a special unit of light infantry in the Macedonian army.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- imputably — In an imputable manner; by imputation.
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- key plate — (in color printing) the plate providing the greatest definition of detail, usually the black plate, on which the other plates are registered.
- lalopathy — any defect of speech.
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- m-payment — a point-of-sale payment made through a wireless device such as a mobile phone or PDA
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
- mazopathy — mazopathia.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
- myatrophy — myoatrophy.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nonparity — the condition of having no parity; the state of not being equal
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- operantly — In an operant manner.
- operatory — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- optically — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- otoplasty — plastic surgery of the external ear.
- outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
- oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- pachytene — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- 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.